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servations as might lead them (and others of their 

 tender years into whose hands this little book may- 

 come) to associate Nature with God, and Natural 

 Truth with Revealed; and^ in the words of the late 

 venerable and revered author of the Essays on the 

 Nature and Principles of Taste^ to look upon the 

 universe which they inhabit, not as the abode only 

 of human cares or human joys^ but as the temple of 

 the Living God, in which praise is duC; and where 

 service is to be performed." 



Southampton^ December 5, 1855. 



