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variability " of " Laws," either moral or material, 

 with the denial of the power of Will to vary, alter, 

 and modify in infinite degrees the course of things. 

 It is the fixedness of all Forces in one sense which 

 constitutes their infinite pliability in another. It 

 is the unchanging relation which they bear to 

 those mental faculties by which we discover them 

 and recognise them, that renders them capable of 

 becoming the supple instruments of those other 

 faculties of Will, of Reason, and of Contrivance 

 by which we can work them for altered and 

 better purposes. 



