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cannot see yours and you cannot see mine ; but have we any 
doubt of their actual existence and reality ? It is true, 1 can 
hear your voice, and you mine; but is that anything real and 
substantial ? — In a moment it is, and is not !— It is true I see 
your bodies, and you mine ; but in seven years hence, we are 
assured, none of us could see the same bodies m one another ; 
and are we, because they are now visible, to think these bodies 
which, even like the momentary sounds of the voice, will also thus 
nass away, are more real than the living souls that inhabit them. 
No • we cannot doubt our soul’s existence ! We are conscious, 
therefore, doubtless, we exist. W e reason, and reflect, and will in 
accordance with our rational cogitations ; our bodies obey our 
souls; and thus our intelligence and will produce certain out- 
ward effects— as intelligible discourse with our mouths, and 
skilful works by means of our hands ; we see the same opera- 
tions performed by other living beings like ourselves, and we 
rationally conclude that they are intelligent, living beings as 
we are We see the inferior animals, endued with life, also like 
ourselves, but, unlike us, incapable of speech or rational dis- 
course, and unable to perform anything analogous to mans 
performances; while, on the other hand, we find, that, b* 
a certain natural energy which we call instinct, they can 
—manifestly without intelligence of their own, and without 
teaching— do some few things more perfectly than even man, 
with alfhis intelligence, could do ; and I will only instance the 
little insect the bee, whose manufacture of wax and honey, and 
whose exhibition pf the honeycomb in its hive of sweets, ih 
admirable palace of industry 1 I say, we see the operations o 
this instinct in the inferior creation, and cannot ^cribe it to 
anv science or knowledge, or ratiocination in the interior 
animals themselves; and to what -to "hom-as '^“eed 
rational beings— must we needs ascribe it? I think 1 need 
not answer the question ! Then, we look farther, as we said 
at the commencement, to the motions of the inanimate creation, 
to the glorious architecture of the heavens, the majestic course 
of the moon and planets with their satellites round them respec- 
tive centres, the wonderful beauties and perfections, of the 
vegetable world, and the surpassingly wise provisions m all the 
chemistry of creation, for the watering of the thirsty earth, 
the purifying of the corrupted air, the remvigoratmg of animal 
life, the healthful enjoyment of all nature : 
We see 
“ The clouds consign their treasures to the fields \ 
And softly shaking on the dimpled pool 
