TO THE USES OF MAN. 99 
dispersion of metals, more especially of that 
most important metal iron, were almost essential 
man earth’s habitability by civilized 
w'lr this, as in all other cases, be un- 
m^ to press the theory of relation to the 
uman race, so far as to contend that all the 
& a geological phenomena we have been con- 
mdenng were conducted solely and exclusively 
«th a view ,o the benefit of man. We may 
rather connt the advantages he derives from 
hem as incidental and residuary consequences • 
which, although they may not have formed the 
xclusive object of creation, were all foreseen 
Trcbrrf f of “'o Gra»t 
Arahitect of that Globe, which, in his appointed 
i:rhUar„^‘“‘' of human 
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we Util, Cltln] r ““U 
heing applied to the beneSt of „„ e„d 
to claim the sole use of them rn T . 
this earth than a few fatK ' *1 °° farther concern with 
whole solid Ibe mlde 
slender shell he treads upon’ ^ to support the 
incessantly over land and^ o the magnetic effluvia course 
e.^pl."m*tbr’ ° f “1 
hung up fof nothiiitr K inamense bodies, the fixed stars, 
find employmenJr f eyes by night, or to 
an overweeniiiff 00 °"^ ^ astronomers ? Surely he must have 
this stupendous frTnTa ‘"'P"''tance, who can imagine 
me ot the universe made for him alone. 
