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and knowledge, how august and sublime appears the
science of ASTRONOMY.

From this survey of worlds, if we attempt to
comprehend HIM, who made and governs the whole; in
whose almighty mind the infinitude of truth, and
boundless extent of knowledge, compose but a single
perception, and if we consider ourselves as candi-
dates for eternal existence in the glory of his pres-
ence, or under the weight of his displeasure, concep-
tion tires, and language fails to describe THEOLOGY.

What noble employment is here for the human
intellect! What copious funds for sublime contem-
plation, and useful instruction? When we take only
a cursory view of the general sciences, in connexion with
their numerous subordinate branches, we cannot re-
gret the abridgment of antediluvian longevity,
which denies us a century for the study and con-
templation of each.

But when those noble and useful subjects are com-
pressed into the narrow limits of four or five years, very
scanty, indeed, must be the time, which they can be
allowed, individually, to charm. What merit, then,
has a set of marks, or of vocal sounds, which can en-