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of the limestones, and ornament their temples and palaces 

 with the marbles, formed of the petrified skeletons oi the 

 zoophytes, which lived and died in oceans that have long 

 since passed away ! 



Hence we perceive that He who formed the Universe 

 creates nothing in vain ; that His works all harmonize to 

 blessings unbounded by the mightiest or the most minute 

 of His creatures; and that the more our knowledge is 

 increased, and our powers of observation are enlarged, the 

 more exalted will be our conception of His wondrous 

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