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Show as by manure; the economic use of fire wind, water, and the mariner's needle steam, coal, chemical agriculture; the re pairs of the human body by the dentis and the surgeon. This is such a resumption of power, as if a banished king shoul buy his territories inch by inch, instead o vaulting at once into histhrone. Meantime in the thick darkness, there are not wanting gleams of a better light,-occasiona examples of the action of man upon natur with his entire force,-with reason as wel as understanding. Such examples are; th traditions of miracles in the earliest antiquity of all nations; the history of Jesu Christ; the achievements of a principle, a in religious and political revolutions, an i the abolitio o th Slave-trade th miracles of enthusiasm, as those reporte i of Swedenborg, Hohenlohe, and the Shakers; many obscure & yet contested facts now arrange under the name of Anima Magnetism; prayer; eloquence; self-healing; and the wisdom of children. Thes are examples of Reason's momentar grasp of the sceptre; the exertions of power which exists not in time or space but an instantaneous in-streaming causin 8 Digital Imag © 2005 Marriott Li rights reserved |