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may venture to go much farther than this, and assert that 

 the material of thought which Nature furnishes is corre- 

 lated to the thinking principle in man. When the Creator 

 adopted an intelligent method in the ordinations of the 

 material world, it was equivalent to a declaration of pur- 

 pose to introduce an intelligent being. And when the 

 Creator had stocked the world with the materials of 

 thought, and had planted in it a being capable of under- 

 standing Nature, it was the obvious purpose of the Deity 

 that Nature should be investigated, and that, by such in- 

 vestigations, man should become not only wiser, but more 

 reverent, religious, and happy. 



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