Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1837 Excerpt: ... ON THE UNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, &c. BOOK I. ON THE RELATIONS OF DIVINE INFLUENCES TO MANKIND. CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE OF THE WORK. The penetrations of modern science into the reserves of physical enquiry have discovered animalculae of such magnitude or diminutiveness, that a million of them would be contained in a globule of water less in bulk than the drop of ink employed in writing the first letter of this work. Out of this countless and undiscernible host, even one, expatiating and frisking in solitary littleness through the drop of liquid at the point of the pen, is big with difficulties and mysteries, tendencies and operations, sufficient to engage the ablest intellect of man, and to occupy the most profound enquiries of an age. After the senses have made an effort to discover the existence of this little agent, and to detain it in sight, the mind struggles to compress itself to an investigation of its structure and functions. Under examination, it developes a curious organization, inconceivably minute, consisting of limbs, muscles, sinews, heart, veins, and a circulating fluid; and capable of spontaneous activity and great muscular force. Within this animated particle are found, in full play, all the workings of sensations, emotions, and volitions, together with all the energies of instinct: it has its appetites and gratifications, its passions and its pleasures, its fears and hopes, its loves and vindictiveness. It is a universe poised on a point--a universe alive in an atom. This little existence, incredibly and painfully little, has an apparatus for fluids, gases, forces, influences, and operations, incomprehensibly subtile, all in action, all at work, all in dependencies, relations, and adaptations, so complicated and so secret, as to baffle the mos...
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