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tory confers, is useful and important. If, then, the am-
bitious exert every nerve to secure the one, shall not
the student be equally as indefatigable to obtain
the other? The historian, instead of reckoning a few
scanty years, may date his life from the first O-
limpiad of time.

All the phenomena of the natural world; the
laws of motion, the vicissitudes of season; the powers,
properties, and uses of the Elements; their united in-
fluence, and joint of operation in producing & diver-
sifying the various beautiful and astonishing apear-
ances, wich which we are surrounded, irresistibly
call our attention to the science of PHYSIOLOGY.

When the mind, from this terrestrial orb, ex-
tends her eye to the "range of planets & suns," and
views ten thousand worlds disperspersed throughout
immensity of space, wheeling with rapid velosity
round their centers of attraction; yet all harmoni-
ously regular and beautifully magnificent, and
further contemplates these as so many vast theatres,
on which the (great) Eternal displays his beneficence, pow-
er, and wisdom to the admiration of myriads of in-
habitants, created for endless progression in felicity