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    fujly , and nqt to shrink from touching them . The real dangers which attend metaphysical inquiries are the same which attend all other inquiries , and which are wholly unconnected with the subjects of inquiry . They arise from our prejudices , our ignorance , our weakness , our presumptuous confidence , our debasing fears ; and they can no more be annihilated by

    depriving them of one mode of indicating their existence , than indiscretion can be cured b y cutting out the tongue , or internal inflammation relieved by cool * ing the hands . A world of truth is before us * We cannot help desiring to explore it ; and we know of no interdiction which need exclude us from any part of it . We ought , therefore , to disregard the mistaken advice and impotent threats which would deter us , and press forward to the limits of science , determined to ascertain for ourselves where we must stop , and to beed no prohibition but that of Nature , or of Him who constituted Nature .

    " Nature , " says Dr . T . Brown , "has not abandoned us , with principles which we must fear to examine , and with truths and illusions which we must never dare to separate . In teaching ms what our powers are incapable of attaining , she has , at the same time , taught us what truths they may attain ; and within this boundary we have the satisfaction of knowing that she has placed all the truths that are important for our virtue and happiness . He , whose eves are clearest to discern the bounding circle , cannot , surelv . be the dullest eyes are clearest to discern the boundhwcirclecannotsurelybe the dullest

    , , , to perceive the truths that are within . The study of the power and limits of the understanding , and of the sources of evidence in external nature and ourselves , instead of either forming or favouring a tendency to scepticism , is the surest , or rather the only , mode of removing the danger of such a tendency . That mind may soon doubt even of the most important truths , which has never learned to distinguish the doubtful from the true . But to know well the irresistible evidence on which truth is founded , is to believe in it , and to believe in it for aver /'

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    Awhile my soul th y earthly cares forego , Awhile cast off the weight of human woe . My mortal sense , I leave thee wandering here , Whilst I unburthen'd seek a higher sphere . There , treading under foot this orb below , Unshackled soar a viewless world to know .

    My soul is straighten ed in its prison'd home , And through unbounded eether longs to roam As a small rain-drop in the ocean tost , So in iofinittide all thought is lost ; There , queen of space and of eternity , The spirit measures time—immensity—Approaches chaos— -dares existence span , Tbe essence of the Godhead learns to scan .

    But when the depth of feeling 1 would paint , Language expires in efforts weak and faint ; BCyvsom would speak—my tongue the aid I sought Refuses , and hut yields the shade of thought . Tb *© different tongues the ; Lord for mind hath made ; Ooe is by ; sounds articulate displayed ;

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    230 Translation of De Lamartin ^ $ Poein , Dieu .

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    TRANSLATION OF MONS . A . DE LAMARTINE S POEM , ENT 1 TLE 1 > , DIEU .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1830, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2583/page/14/