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vances, implying design; there is still a 
higher branch of analogy, namely, corres¬ 
pondence with the truths of revealed reli¬ 
gion. 
In this department of learning our science 
has a place; we may indicate a few direc¬ 
tions in which a reflective mind at work 
amidst its facts, may pursue the profitable 
path which unites all secular knowledge to 
that which is the highest:—^Svisdom for a 
man’s self.” 
We may instance the illustrations afforded 
by the fossil arrangement of the earth to 
those truths of revelation which teach us 
that man is the subject of divine govern¬ 
ment, and the object of divine purpose. 
That he is not placed here to be indepen¬ 
dent of his Maker, but to realize the 
benefits, and accomplish the objects of a 
great system, the resources of which were 
provided for him before his appearance. 
When we step across the threshold of a 
villa at Pompeii, we are amidst the house¬ 
hold arrangements of ordinary life, though 
animation has for centuries fled from the 
deserted hearths; so on entering the cav- 
