His Writings 



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M Among the several agencies employed to alter 

 the face of the world is that destructive and 

 dreadful agitation known as the earthquake. By 

 this awful power cities have become a mass of 

 ruins, rocks have been overthrown, and rivers 

 have been altered in their course. The seas have 

 encroached upon the land, and the land has 

 become a bottomless lake .... 



** One thought must pervade the mind of 

 every intelligent man respecting the world which 

 he inhabits, the animals which surround him, and 

 the heavens which encircle the globe like a 

 curtain — that all and everything in the external 

 arrangement of the earth, and in its internal 

 formation and conditions of life, are under the 

 control and guidance of immutable laws — that 

 naught is by chance or the insipid offspring of 

 a moment, but that all fresh from the hands of 

 the Eternal is continually progressing onward to 

 a purer state .... 



" While the telescope opens to us fields of 

 wonder and admiration in the heavens, manifesting 

 to our view myriads of stars, the revolution of the 

 solar and planetary systems, and disclosing worlds 

 upon worlds, stretching from earth to heaven ; 

 the microscope teaches that, beneath, above and 

 around us are myriads of creatures so small that 

 millions would not cover a square inch, and yet 



