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Thou / &jt < > M Tanni ifi ^ rn » hn l tfecfct'hint miih MP ^ nlMMMMlf ^ i nj % i ? ifi *** M * i ^ pitufartij' MiwfapA » ant as the more prominent agents of thy iniifallimmblu ihijii » M # t - Among- I - ftW principles of creation perceive thto £ > tke ^ dfitog originated is aot perfect , but instinct with the principle ^ # ^* r fectiblity * This principle , decidedl y perceptible in the iwm ^ Ul being , is latent in all r and through human agency developed ifi * all . Fruity lowers , vegetables , are by culture carried forward ^ into varieties and excellencies unknown to the original stodc . Tbfc * same may be said of all the lower animals . . * *
I regard man as the youngest animal on earth , or , to speak more distinctly , as a species newly on it ; that he lb hastening towards a high and happy state , and will attain it by the forking " out of the principle of progression implanted in him . Tb ^ wiarfte of the Supreme has its course ; the accomplishment ' <* & that
course ts its completion ; its completion takes it : back t ^ rttiM ^ t whence it came ; the circle is made , and the source © reriastShg Instinct with the desire of progress , the human mind imm wn uadeviating purpose of action , an unerring path of action , an unchanging object of action ; the purpose is improvement , the path is power , the object or deity Perfection .
In the creations of God I perceive two things—the highest adaptation of means , and the utmost economy of materials ; , in ths ~ w <** Mtg > df these creations two others , force atid facflfty . Ntwi ^ of fhese principles have ever entered into" the machinery ^ f Stft ^ e retigk > f > s : on the Contrary , the means have eVer been cltAtH y * and incompatible ; the expenditure , whether we consider tfiaVof
life or money , immense ; as to its force , one strong rtiirtd Ms ^ opposed a conclave , one high heart defied a hierarchy ; ' wftffe , for facility , we perceive nothing but clogged wheels from th&jrtrt opfcner to the prelate . J Man , as a species , is only just entering into the stage' of jTotrtft wtich immediately follows childhood : his early and barb&rtfW
habits of excessive selfishness , which , under various modiftfcattoSs ^' is still perceptible in all his plans , is analogous to the atti&n * of the infant , who , under the influence of a vague impulse ^ c ^ rrft ^ everything it can grasp to its mouth . As its perceptive > jK > #¥ r * expand , and its knowledge extends , it learns that it is ohly' ^ HMfe * substances that can be profitably applied in that manner ' . ' Iln
the slime way man now begins to perceive tliat iridividu ' dlity' KBr its limits for him , and universality a lien upon him ; that he WW ftfetlkie * , thfc working of which is a moral arithmetic which * mt * f g * forwwd in himself , buttb ^ t th ^ rfesiilt is for soc iety . InriMdtMiHty is inmtomlm > wh «* th * divifiioti df Mbour ; or , Sffa hmhtm «* rid wkfc tiiGri ^ predjti ^ tfa ^ ditisto \ t *> mmm * # m god ^* i * a * k # iteS <> Vl ct > rrtitiuatly c ^ om ^ fti itfe ^ 'ff » in ^ Mlhi ^ te fcteNtfft ^^ # * i * inmtedi « te sphere Af ric + tWTJ W& * fWft ? s » awpMMRii £ H 9 tt tQMnsMKMis m cv nuppiirr ; atKPtirai'lliiw
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1835, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2649/page/33/
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