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CONCLUSION. 
in such parts (probably small parts) of the order of nature, 
as are accessible to our observation. 
Again; if there be those who think, that the contracted¬ 
ness and debility of the human faculties in our present 
state, seem ill to accord with the high destinies which the 
expectations of religion point out to us, I would only ask 
them, whether any one, who saw a child two hours after its 
birth, could suppose that it would ever come to understand 
fluxions;* or who then shall say, what farther amplification 
of intellectual powers, what accession of knowledge, what 
advance and improvement, the rational faculty, be its con¬ 
stitution what it will, may not admit of, when placed amidst 
new objects, and endowed with a sensorium adapted, as it 
undoubtedly will be, and as our present senses are, to the 
perception of those substances, and of those properties of 
things, with which our concern may lie. 
Upon the whole; in everything which respects this awful, 
but, as we trust, glorious change, we have a wise and 
powerful Being (the author, in nature, of infinitely various 
expedients, for infinitely various ends) upon whom to rely 
for the choice and appointment of means, adequate to the 
execution of any plan which his goodness or his justice 
may have formed, for the moral and accountable part of his 
terrestrial creation. That great office rests with him: be 
it ours to hope and to prepare, under a firm and settled 
persuasion, that, living and dying, we are his; that life is 
passed in his constant presence, that death resigns us to 
his merciful disposal. 
* See Search’s Light of Nature, passim. 
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