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cd poet, “ and Solomon, in all his wisdom 
never taught more wholesome lessons than 
these silent monitors convey to a thoughtful 
mind and an understanding heart.”* “ There 
are two books,” says Sir Thomas Bbowne, 
“ from whence I collect my divinity ; besides 
that written one of God, another of His ser- 
vant nature, that universal and public manu- 
script that lies expanded unto the eyes of all. 
Those who never saw Him in one have discov- 
ered Him in another. This was the scripture 
and theology of the heathens ; the natural 
motion of the sun made them more admire 
Him than its supernatural station did the 
children of Israel ; the ordinary effects of na- 
ture wrought more admiration in them, than 
in the other all his miracles. Surely the hea- 
thens knew better how to join and read these 
mystical letters, than wo Christians, who cast 
a more careless eye on these common hiero- 
glyphics, and disdain to suck divinity from 
the flowers of nature.” 
* Southey. 
