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products, the merest speck of animation, through its cycle 
by development, reaches up to man. Each plays its part in 
the grand Kosmic picture : each is an adjunct in one grand 
scheme ; the inorganic is succeeded by the organic, so in- 
stinctive capacity is succeeded by mental power, for some 
comprehensive end, although its purpose may be concealed 
from our purview. Had there not been a purpose to be 
accomplished, other than merely the successions or muta- 
tions of the inorganic and the organic, Mind becomes a 
needless feature in the grand panorama ; but as there are 
no wastes in Nature, we must conceive Mind in the vast 
projection of creation plays its part as a distinctive capacity, 
or we must conceive its institution to be but a wasted 
energy. This is inconceivable, for each part in the Kosmic 
idea has its place ; and impossible, for if intelligence de- 
signed, intelligence completed its project. The Kosmos 
discloses a tremendous mechanism, diversified yet homo- 
geneous ; and as in the march of events we find that there 
are no mechanisms but which owe their institution to intel- 
ligence, we then can view the universe as the condensation 
of a thought'— the material presentment of an immaterial 
energy. 
IV. MODERN ADVANCES IN METEOROLOGY. 
f ONE of the Sciences, save perhaps Electricity, has 
taken such rapid strides during the last fifty years 
as the much-despised science of Meteorology. 
Strange to say the advance of the one has been closely 
bound up with the progress of the other in a much more 
intimate manner than the casual observer would suspeCt. 
For the greatest advances in eleCtrical science have been 
the result of the improved methods of measuring eleCtrical 
quantities which were necessitated by the growth of the 
telegraph ; and the modern advances which have been made 
in meteorological science consist of deductions drawn from 
observations simultaneously made over large areas, and 
transmitted by telegraph to central stations. The entire 
modern system of storm-warmings — whether we refer to 
those issued by our own Meteorological Office, or to the 
