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on the carriage-way, in no order and without regularity, or even 
the causeway^ or payment, with a fine piece of mosaic work, m 
which the pieces of stone, all of different colours, are so m- 
eeniously placed and arranged as to form a picture which loo 
L if patted by an artist wfth the finest brushes and colouring ; 
who that has any sense— what rational being— I ask, can doubo 
S 0 a h stngle moment, that purpose, intention, and design, with 
the greatest intelligence and mental exertion, as well as the 
greatest manual dexterity and skill, were requisite m order to 
nroduce such a finished and beautiful work of art f ihe 
rumbling *of material atoms together, by some unthmkmg, un- 
intelligent energy in nature, which some philosophises have 
dreamed of, could at best but have produced some such result 
as we find when stones are cast carelessly down on the highway , 
but what could arrange such atoms ^ 
their existence! into the mosaic beauty of the landscape wnion 
nature exMbiS to our eyes and minds, save Omnipotence, com- 
bined whh infinite skill and intelligence ? Few, or only a few, I 
sunDOse of those here present but had an opportunity of seeing 
the Great^ Exhibition of man’s skill and intelligence last year in 
Hvde Park •* and few, I should think, but concluded that the 
greatest skill and intelligence were required in the architect anu 
builders of the enormous building which “ nta ‘ ned ^b 
derful display of man’s intelligence and labour. -be m 
intelligent and better educated, too, among you were, unques- 
“onably at a glance at that building, or even upon hearing 
what was built or proposed to be built, aware that science o ^ 
knowledge of principles-the highest kind of intelligence save 
intuitive^ reason — would be absolutely requisite in th frame - 
of such a complicated structure, m order to insure the perfect 
adaptation to pa« and „( '** * l „„uS 
secure the necessary strength in the mighty fabric. iou wouiu 
also "at once perceive that one mind, or a -mmunion of minds, 
must have schemed out and planncd thc w-hoie and sup 
intended its fabrication. You would laugh at the man w 
would say, that the hundreds of workmen there 
not guided and controlled at every step, according ^ 
design, a distinct specification, a general idea or pi , 7 
know/that this idea, or plan of the whole, mast have ex sted 
anterior to the making of the several parts, and have been com 
stantlv kept in view in their final arrangement and fixing 
together. In short, you know, that intelligence must necessar y 
have preceded and "presided over that great work as indeed 
over all works of which yon know anything; and you know 
* The first Great International Exhibition of 1851. 
