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to the most laborious, the most penetrative analysis 
of chemistry, only fresh matter for wonder and ad- 
miration, fresh proofs of Universal Order ? 
It may be objected to the limited survey of phy- 
sical analogies, which I have thus cursorily made, 
that it is confined to a few superficial features of a 
small portion of creation: that if the whole exhibit 
evidences of design, why narrow the scope of ob- 
servation ? If the whole be organized, why contract 
the application of the term organization to a part ? 
The answer is obvious. The survey of analogies 
must begin at some point. In every survey the 
mind advances with most secure satisfaction when 
it expands from the proximate to the remote, from 
objects near at hand and easy of analysis to those 
more difficult of access, and of minute scrutiny. A 
person who should alight from a balloon on the 
summit of a mountain, would be as uninformed re- 
specting his relation to the country round the foot 
of the mountain as of his relation to the objects of 
the fainter distance: but one who has ascended 
from the previously surveyed base, and looked from 
time to time around him during the gradual ascent, 
will be able to distinguish, under the most acute 
angles, the minute differences ; and to certify their 
bearings, and all their mutual relations. 
I might have enlarged the number of objects 
through which analogies may be traced, but I trust 
that the few instances which I have selected, how- 
ever slightly designated, will have fully answered 
the object which I proposed at the commencement, 
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