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foundest philosophers — their maternal and fraternal affec- 

 tion in regarding the mother's every want, and assiduous 

 care in nursing her offspring to maturity, and their un- 

 accountable display of instinct in emergencies, filling the 

 beholders with wonder and amazement ? The mind thus 

 contemplating such wondrous operations, cannot avoid 

 looking beyond these results to their Divine Author. 

 Therefore let every mind that receives one ray of light 

 from nature's mysterious transactions, and is capable of 

 deriving the least enjoyment therefrom, pursue the path 

 still inviting onward. 



Every new acquisition will yield an additional satisfac- 

 tion and renewed courage for the next attempt which 

 will be made with a constantly increasing zest ; and he 

 will arise from the contemplation, a wiser, better, nobler 

 being ; far superior to those who have never looked 

 beyond mere animal gratifications. 



Is there in the whole circle of nature's exhaustlegs store- 

 house, any one science more inviting, more refining, and 

 more exalting than this ? 



