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same order. Many problems concerning long duration and successive 
monuments of the changes of the globe, may perhaps never be completely 
solved by human labour, but the very effort to reach such high points 
of knowledge fulfils the great object for which man is made curious 
concerning the works of creation : his intellectual strength is aug- 
mented by the attempt, and enabled to adopt those large and worthy 
views of God and nature which religion and science equally demand. 
What can be more congenial to the undying mind of man, than to 
see in all existing nature the effect of a settled order of terrestrial forces, 
put in action from the beginning of earthly time; to see performed 
to-day the phenomena provided for in plans fixed thousands of ages 
ago ; and to speculate on future conditions of the globe, to which these 
phenomena are to give rise ? (See Outline of part of Brimham rocks, 
No. 22.) 
