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functions and enables the thinking principle to manifest its 

 astonishing powers, shows the nervous system to be the most 

 wonderful of all the contrivances which Infinite Wisdom has 

 placed in the human body. What could demand an Infinite 

 Deity if such a contrivance did not ? 



796. Dependencies of one System upon Another— The 

 connection between mind and body, however, is only imper- 

 fectly understood, and therefore there is one other thing which 

 exhibits more impressively than the nervous system and the 

 mental powers the agency of an infinitely wise Being. The 

 human body is made up of quite a number of minor systems 

 of organizations apparently independent of one another, yet 

 all in fact mutually dependent and combined into one complete 

 and perfect system, with the parts all exactly adapted to one 

 another. Could any thing less than Infinite Wisdom have 

 accomplished so marvellous a work ? 



797. The same Plan Exhibited in the whole Animal 

 Kingdom . — Yet if we extend our researches through the whole 

 animal kingdom, we shall find that this same mutual adapta- 

 tion and correlation extend through the whole series, so that 

 all are but parts of a mighty whole. From man downwards 

 through the hundreds of thousands of species, to the humblest 

 animalcule, each occupies a fitting place, and every link of 

 the long chain is in perfect harmony with all the rest, so that 

 the skillful anatomist, knowing one part of the chain, can 

 delineate the rest, just as a single bone of an animal often 

 determines the character of its whole frame. What vast 

 reaches of thought, what wonders of wisdom, what boundless- 

 ness of power must it have required, to weave together so vast 

 and varied a system into one golden web of harmonies ! 



II. PROOFS OF DIVINE BENEVOLENCE 



798. All Organs and Functions Normally Produce 

 Happiness. — One proof of Divine benevolence is, that all the 



