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Salicaria remains the same, and seems likely to do so to the 
end of the world's history. 
There is a statement in Genesis (ii. 3) which the 
best Jewish commentators* understand to mean that God 
created all His work “ thenceforth to act ” ; that, having 
created the universe and all that it contains, the production 
of something out of nothing ceased, and the increasing 
reproduction of something out of something commenced. 
“ The works of Jehovah are great, sought out of all them 
that have pleasure therein.'” This expresses the reverent de- 
light of man as a worshipper in the temple of Nature. Every 
fresh investigation of the works of God tends to exalt the 
glory of the great Creator. His wisdom is seen to be indeed 
infinitely varied, f and its effects are shown in the adaptation 
of means to an end worthy of Himself ; and that is His own 
glory. Here the mind can rest as on an adequate explanation 
of the great enigma. J 
An evident design to clothe the rugged material of the 
planet we inhabit with the forms of vegetable and animal life 
in such rich luxuriance as to leave no part tenantless and void, 
is apparent to those who have pleasure in the works of God ; 
for in whatever direction we turn our view, even in the most 
unexpected situations, we find the wonderful Artificer glorify- 
ing His own skill and delighting our minds with the contem- 
plation of life adapted to the circumstances. 
If the Arctic regions are explored, the extreme cold does 
not altogether prevent the putting forth of such forms of life, 
animal and vegetable, as arc suited to this ungenial clime. 
If, on the other hand, we examine those hot and almost boil- 
ing springs, which disengage themselves from the bowels of 
the earth and spread an abnormal temperature around, even 
there some species of confervse will be found adapted to the 
more than tropical warmth. 
If we sound the mighty ocean, and bring up the ooze from 
its profoundest depths, we find abundant traces of life, vigor- 
ous, self-sustaining, self-enjoying, and presenting such forms 
of beauty as to delight the eye of the microscopist, to whom 
alone (as in the Diatomacece) these forms can ever be revealed. 
If any phase of things is under our view, such as we havo 
not before contemplated, we still perceive that all is arranged 
* V. De Sola, Genesis, p. 5. 
f r) ttoXvttoIkiXos ao^ia rav Q(ov.‘ — Eph> iii. 10. 
£ So LinnjfiUs. “Finis creatiohis telluris cst gloria Dei ex opera naturte 
per hominem solum.” ( Introitus Sys . Nat.) 
