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    framed toy human : art , is still a machine esiftcaitly dependent upon a variety of c&fcfces , atm incapable as it shoula seem of going on continually of itself , or on the supposition of the withdrawment ( so to speak ) of the original contriver . When a man makes a machine , if a ffood workman , he

    proceeds upon certain principles which never fail him , and his work remains < barring accidents ) as long as it 3 nature and construction will admit ; but when we view the great machine of the universe , we can only judge of it from its effects , and know very little of the causes of those effects . Abb £

    La Pluche has clearly shewn that when philosophers talk of attraction and repulsion , gravity and continuity , they use words without ideas , and can justly reason only as to matters of fact and experience . What is

    cohesion ? We can give no account why those immense masses of granite constituting Waterloo Bridge , which appear to the eye as an infinite number "of molecules glued together , should remain stationary and be likely so to remain for age 3 , rather than be every moment in clanger of

    separating and crumbling into dust , farther than that the Almighty will have it so . And the p lanets might surely as easily be kept in their orbits by the instrumentality of invisible vortices , as by the centrifugal and centripetal forces . And why floes not the attraction at the centre of the

    earth , which they say extends to the moon , level all the hills and mountains , and render it as simply round as the globes on vtfhich its surface is portrayed ? Nature , it is to be feared , would prove but a clumsy manager if all were left to her own discretion :

    witness those parts of the world whieji are conormftted in a . great measure to human management j&ad controul . In the capacious , but dismal and neglected forests of the torrid zone , we read that the increase of vegetation , the

    accumulation of qges , is so immense and so impenetrable as to defy all human art to render 1 ftem 'habitable : hence n&gy are the resort only of savage beaqft * and deadly semeivt ^ the yefy &r is tendered baleful -and pe&tifexou ^ and -the ^ andy 4 s * wu * ^ f the Araj ) , seated jp . bis teat , eurxpqpded by ^ tt ^ i 0 $ ^ j ^ T % y

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    Me faithful camel , becomes afar mw ^ desirable residence . ,, 'V ¦ ! «« Nature deeS rough-hew Bnd 3 c& § pt » Leaves art to polteh and refine . " ** Now , if from these cousideratiaag we ascend to the upper region ^ a&g

    reflect that any material derutfioB ctf the planets from their orbits , as they revolve through the unfathomable depths of aether , would involve the wreck of the whole system , laea v £ jplain understandings will draw a rational conclusion .

    Mr . Luckcock relates a story from Mrs . Cappe , and also gives us one-of his own , both of which he represent * in a ludicrous light . But there i $ in reality nothing ludicrous Ui such . events ; and every good man that has experienced eminent and seasoaaWe

    deliverances , ( and who has not experienced them ?) will generally -ascribe them to the superiutemleiicy , and in some remarkable cases , to the interposition of Providence in his behalfnor in such cases , can the most artdent expressions of gratitude to the Deity ever be justly deemed t € a

    purpose little required - ' , * but , pa the contrary , a debt of intermiaaWe obligation , and , like the principle from which it 4 flows , " still paying , still to owe V * Doubtless , a man should he grateful for his crosses as well as for his comforts , when they ham b ^ en instrumental in promoting bis moral and religious unpurovemeut

    Some years a ^ o , a merchant wap about to engage m a foreign concern , and with this view had euibarjfc £ d fcfoe greater part of Ids property ; whe ^ i the ship was under sailing orders , a& lie was going on board he feU down jaud broke his leg , and of course

    reznained on shore : iu a short tiiaqe the vessel was cast a ^ vay , the car # o ^« d , all the crew lost . He $ ooiv howe / very recovered his health and was gradually restored to prosperity . What nr « * re to make of this ? Mr . Li ^ ck co ^ k no doubt will say , it ww a siu ^ iii ar -co-Jtttcideuce of circuoietAnceau

    Theu ^ as to i ; he g ^ n ^ ral 4 f > ctri » e jpf Divine iiiflueuc ^ e or ^ uggesti ^ W :: sMwtiom seem to fcjvve arisen &oj » jmstakes or J ^ i ^ : epres ^ ntetia « s , < mj ^ fooodiog it with xhe mira ^* io ^ igifte ^ f lthe Spirit w l ^ e ^ pojB ^ o ^ Aff ^ i « rf ^ vhich ceaa ^ d afp ? ^ # r- JBul iboib

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    On Mr , LvskeoGks ' Remarks on Provident ?* . $ &

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1823, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1788/page/21/