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turers of the skin, pulices, pediculi and acari, fleas, 
lice, and ticks, chigoes, mosquitos, bugs, &c. “ To 
each his sufferings—for a time—condemned alike to 
moan.” But for a time, however, with mysterious 
modifications : death is the common boundary of 
that time. This analogy, or relation to all around 
it, belongs to each individual; to every species, ge- 
nus, order, class ; to all that has preceded and to all 
that is to come. 
Who can survey the analogical connection of the 
classes, so widely different on a primary view, in 
their apparent conditions of being ; who can observe 
these analogies, so varied as to the subjects in which 
they are traced, so curiously fitted to changes of ex- 
istence, and yet believe that all are casual, all unde- 
signed ? Who can observe these repeated evidences 
of Unity of plan, and doubt whether all be not the 
work of One all-designing Intelligence, One all- 
operating, all-sustaining Power? Who can contem- 
plate the general delight in existence, which, in op- 
position to all assaults of major or minor evils, ma- 
nifestly predominates throughout creation in all sen- 
tient beings, without conviction that the goodness 
of the Author is, at the least, co-extensive with the 
immensity of manifest good ? Who can contemplate 
his own relation as a creature to such a Creator, 
such an atom, even when compared to the globe on 
which he is placed, and, in the pride of profound 
ignorance, presume to question the wisdom or the 
justice of the ordered whole, the minutest particle 
of which presents to the most powerful microscope, 
