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. 1866 Excerpt: ...of the human race, can be held in no light regard by any mind that has arrived at the perception how intimately blended and inseparable are the links by which our material wants are connected with the whole framework of our social and moral existence. For if the physical sciences, as we call them--if those familiar ...
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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. 1866 Excerpt: ...of the human race, can be held in no light regard by any mind that has arrived at the perception how intimately blended and inseparable are the links by which our material wants are connected with the whole framework of our social and moral existence. For if the physical sciences, as we call them--if those familiar names of Geology, Chemistry, Botany, Physiology, and the whole string of kindred studies, each in a greater or less degree connected with the labours and research of the agriculturist, be indeed but the multiplied titles which we have given to the various but correlative parts of one great machine--if their separate investigation be after all found concentric to the same end and object--the knowledge of His works and mode of action, who has made nothing in vain, nothing deficient, nothing superfluous, may they not begin to assume to our understanding something beyond what we are accustomed by habit to associate with the name of 'physical'? Have they no ultimate purpose or bearing, no mission to mankind beyond the analysis of a soil, the cultivation of a plant, or the filling of a granary or a museum, as 'the be-all and the end-all' of human knowledge? We look around and find ourselves amidst a great and harmonious system whose laws are ever pressing around us: more and more clearly the knowledge breaks upon us, that we are a constituted part of that system, in which the humblest even of the material parts have each their appointed purpose and connection with the rest, and, as the subjects of human labour and intelligence, become pregnant with results which carry on, far beyond our own ephemeral plans and purposes. It is at this point of view that the material and the moral world begin to blend together to our mind and reasoning. Causes and effect...
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