IN SEARCH OF THE SOUL
forms of intelligence and innocence, may constitute a spiritual heaven, a kingdom of God, or a holy society, in which the end of creation may be regarded by God, and by which God may be regarded as the end of ends. From infinite wisdom, added to equal power, and this to equal providence, such perpetual end flows constantly from the first end to the last, and from the last to the first, through the intermediate ends, that declare the glory of the Divinity." To this he adds in a note, " I shall treat of these subjects, by the blessing of God, in the last of my analytic Parts. But as yet we are dwelling in the mere effects of the world, which exhibit the amazing and Divine circle of these ends before the contemplation of our very senses."
Of the high purposes and original method pursued in this treatise on The Animal Kingdom, the following extracts will give a good idea:—
"As the blood is continually making its circle of life, that is to say, is in a constant revolution of birth and death; as it dies in its old age and is regenerated or born anew; and as the veins solicitously gather together the whole of its corporeal part, and the lymphatics of its spirituous
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