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. 1875 Excerpt: ...parts May mar the general whole. For God hath made Man like Himself, --and therefore like a man He works, and guided by like principles Of adaptation, --both alike in kind, --And differing only as a giant tops A pigmy dwarf, or as the radiant sun Outshines a glimmering taper. Therefore thou Art capable of judging His ...
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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. 1875 Excerpt: ...parts May mar the general whole. For God hath made Man like Himself, --and therefore like a man He works, and guided by like principles Of adaptation, --both alike in kind, --And differing only as a giant tops A pigmy dwarf, or as the radiant sun Outshines a glimmering taper. Therefore thou Art capable of judging His designs And gauging His intents, and following Afar the traces of His noble skill; And thou may'st comprehend how He maintained His wondrous vigil o'er the budding world And patiently endured, nor recked of Time And rolling ages while the glorious work Expanded 'neath His fingers, and became Instinct with order, loveliness, and last With multifarious Life, Thus rose the Earth From the dark void, and all the Universe Accompanying, --and slowly lingered through Its stage of throes and travail;--sparing nought Of all its agonies, nor hurrying on By smallest jot of Time the appointed space To strengthen its foundations, and enrich Its walls with every precious merchandise Of stone, or metal, or of sparkling gem Which might find use hereafter, --while yet nought But senseless rock and raging seas possessed The groaning weary waste. Yet did not He Unduly hasten, or impatiently Abridge their slow protracted processes, Nor lessen aught of all the extended coil Of circling lustrums, in whose long embrace Were incubated the primasval forms Of earliest Life. Nor when His solid ground Rose from the universal sea, and gave A resting-place for the earth-fitted feet Of His terrestrial family, did He Urge on His latest beings to possess The new-acquired soil, --but planted first Vast solitary groves, whose foliage Might vanquish the foul vaporous air, and chase Its poisonous exhalations, binding them To present harmless service, and no less To future noble profit an...
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