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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859. Excerpt: ... which the Divine Hand sustains the universe,--then we not only can conceive, but we may well believe, that these ordinary laws may bo suspended by the same Hand which constantly sustains, or, rather, evermore creates them. The Almighty and Personal reason, everywhere present in nature, but nowhere controlled by it, may for its own Divine ends manifest itself by new and special modes,--by utterances at variance with the common order or inductive interpretation of nature,--but only because they are utterances in behalf of a loftier and primal order, which holds all sequences in its grasp, and turns them as it will. II. THE BALANCE OF NATURE It is our present design to point out, in some detail, one or two of the great fundamental laws and arrangements of the physical world, which, although from their familiarity we are too apt seldom to dwell upon their contemplation, are in truth radically connected with the stability of our world and the maintenance of that "balance of Nature," as a consequence of which the face of our globe is maintained in a state of enduring fruitfulness and beauty. It is no paradox to say, that in the present state of things, life could not exist without death, and that the correlative processes of vitality and decay, production and corruption, formation and destruction, are so intimately connected and so mutually dependent, that their reciprocal and compensatory action alone maintains the equilibrium of our natural system and the essential conditions of its permanent well being. We have used the word destruction in its ordinary acceptation; but before entering upon the main part of our subject, let us briefly pursue the train of thought which it suggests. It must not be forgotten that in truth we neither know, nor can in any degree c...
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