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been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing 

 plants and animals, as to indicate throughout a perfect har- 

 mony of design and unity of purpose. To assume that the evi- 

 dence of the beginning or end of so vast a scheme lies within 

 the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our specu- 

 lations, appears to us inconsistent with a just estimate of the 

 relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and 

 the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal 



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