PT. V. 



THE PARK PINETUM. 



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taunt with their want of success philosophers who have 

 attempted a labour, perhaps superhuman — to throw 

 light on the hitherto impenetrable darkness which has 

 enveloped the processes of vitality — to delineate the 

 actually progressing operations of the hand of the 

 Almighty in his noblest, most finished, most complicated 

 w^orks. It is the unthinking only who, becoming inured 

 to the universally perpetual recurrence of the generation 

 and growth of organic existences, take these most mys- 

 terious miracles as matters of course, and behold them 

 with indifference. 



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