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this, like other casual circustances, brings its attendant 

 good. 



To attempt to follow nature through all her intricacies, 

 would be fruitless, but so far as we are permitted to follow 

 her paths, we find them strewed with pleasantness, and 

 while the contemplatiTe mind breaks through the film of 

 ignorance, it soars with clearer views towards perfection, 

 sees with thankfulness the care a beneficent Creator has 

 taken to forward his present happiness, and contemplating 

 the vast mass of organized matter surrounding him on every 

 side, rationally concludes with the pious Paley, that 

 such designs must have a designer, and that designer must 

 be God." 



