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Show thoughts. Let us demand our own work and laws and worship Undoubtedly we have no questions to as which are unanswerable. We must trus the perfection of the creation so far, as t believe that whatever curiosity the orde of things has awakened in our minds, th order of things can satisfy. Every man' condition is a solution in hieroglyphic t those inquiries he would put. He acts it a life, before he apprehends it as truth. I like manner, nature is already, in its form and tendencies, describing its own design Let us interrogate the great apparition that shines so peacefully around us. Let u inquire, to what end is nature? @ All scienc has one aim, namely, to find a theory o nature & We have theories of races an of functions, but scarcely yet a remot approximation to an idea of creation. W are now so far from the road of truth, tha religious teachers dispute and hate eac other, an speculativ me are esteeme unsound and frivolous » But to a soun judgment, the most abstract proof is th most practical & Whenever a true theor appears, it will be its own evidence. Its tes is, that it will explain all phenomena. No Digital Image ©) 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah, All rghts reserved |