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CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
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been so modelled, on types analogous to those of existing 
plants and animals, as to indicate throughout a perfect har- 
mony of design and unity of purpose. To assume that the evi- 
dence of the beginning or end of so vast a scheme lies within 
the reach of our philosophical inquiries, or even of our specu- 
lations, appears to us inconsistent with a just estimate of the 
relations which subsist between the finite powers of man and 
the attributes of an Infinite and Eternal Beino-. 
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