Cedar Ki. eys 
and deadly diseases of certain parts of the earth 
prove that the whole world was not made for 
him. When an animal from a tropical climate 
is taken to high latitudes, it may perish of cold, 
and we say that such an animal was never in- 
tended for so severe a climate. But when man 
betakes himself to sickly parts of the tropics 
and perishes, he cannot see that he was never 
intended for such deadly climates. No, he will 
rather accuse the first mother of the cause of 
the difficulty, though she may never have seen 
a fever district; or will consider it a providen- 
tial chastisement for some self-invented form 
of sin. 
Furthermore, all uneatable and uncivilizable 
animals, and all plants which carry prickles, are 
deplorable evils which, according to closet re- 
searches of clergy, require the cleansing chem- 
istry of universal planetary combustion. But 
more than aught else mankind requires burn- 
ing, as being in great part wicked, and if that 
transmundane furnace can be so applied and 
regulated as to smelt and purify us into con- 
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