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with apprehension not less clear than that which 
follows the impressions of the senses, an adaptation 
of the variously modified arrangements of an inward 
nature, not visible or tangible, but having nicely 
adjusted relations to all that can be seen and touch- 
ed, and to something far beyond all with which our 
senses are conversant, namely, to that mysterious 
Power which throughout the whole range of exist- 
ence has adapted part to part, and all to the whole: 
the external objects of perception to internal objects 
of consciousness, the external terrible to internal 
fear ; the externally lovely to internal love; the ex- 
ternally magnificent to the heart-swelling emotions 
of sublimity—and which has filled the mind or soul 
of man with a moral organization especially adapted 
to the social state. Even between this moral organ- 
ization and that of the external forms of physically 
organized beings, many curious analogies are ob- 
vious. In each we may observe a nice adjustment 
of conflicting principles; amongst which, excess on 
the one hand, and defect on the other, tends alike 
to particular or general injury, and general disorder 
to certain destruction. These Analogies, however, 
demand distinct consideration ; and are in this place 
only noticed to shew that here also is manifested 
the unity of that Power which has balanced the 
forces of the extensor and the flexor muscles in the 
legs of a grasshopper, as well as those of attraction 
and repulsion in the orbits of the planets :. which, 
having filled the universe with beauty and with ma- 
jesty, has endued the most perfect of organized be- 
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