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is rolled away; and you will with me de¬ 
light in studying the purposes and applica¬ 
tions thereby intended, both towards our 
humble instruction and his increasing 
glory.”* 
Fossil botany has also other uses besides 
its application to physical and economical 
science. 
There are connexions between all truth; 
arguments and analogies in the material 
world which are apt illustrations of the 
moral: the real is everywhere symbolical 
of the ideal. 
Although its memorials do not reveal to 
us the history of man’s mind, nor betray the 
secrets of his true condition, yet they ex¬ 
actly harmonize with the knowledge derived 
from the more direct sources of reason and 
revelation, as to the great problems of our 
nature. 
In the progress of our inquiry we have 
been led to remark how every province of 
Palaeontology abound with illustrations of 
the wisdom, power, and goodness of (Jod, 
in the occurrence of numberless contri- 
* Dr. Wiseman's Lectures. 
