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limiting himself in his relations
to such finite things, by the na-
-ture with which they were endowed
at their formation.

With this theistic conception of
the universe we are all more or
less familiar, but most of us have
thought too little about it to find
how consonant it is with our rea-
-son, and how admirable it is in
all its fitnesses. It is a theory not
without difficulties, such difficul-
-ties as limited beings find in Commerce
with the unlimited; but its difficul-
-ties are fewer and less formidable than
those of any other theory, and it ut-
-terly escapes the fatal absurdities,