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lations ; on the relations of organized substance, the 
object of our senses, to mind ; of mind to conscious- 
ness, or to itself; and to the relations of that self to 
its allotted sphere of action, and to the Cause or 
Power by which such agency has been ordained 
and allotted. 
On the moral relations of intelligent beings in 
society, on their domestic and political relations, and 
on the good and the evil which result from a correct 
apprehension of reciprocal obligations, this is not the 
proper place to enlarge. It may however be to the 
purpose to observe, that these relations and obliga- 
tions are conveyed from generation to generation 
by instruction, which anticipates experience, and 
which must have done so from the beginning of 
creation, at least with relation to rational beings. 
Inferior animals appear to be guided in a limited 
sphere of action by a mysterious impelling power, 
implanted at birth. To some of these, instruc- 
tion is impossible; for the existing generations have 
never been born till the whole of their progenitors 
have perished. 
"Appes 2 of peyados xal xaprépos j cope) avopes. 
But men, the great, the mighty, and the wise, are 
long after their birth more helpless than most young 
animals of other classes. 
Is this their extreme weakness and infirmity a 
benefit or an evil? It is certainly the source of our 
holiest, our purest, our most rapturous attachments : 
of all that sanctifies, that blesses, and endears the 
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