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Rh belongs to God alone:—man is but a recipient of life, and that from moment to moment. For life is a thing not created, but only communicated; that is, there is no such thing as endowing a created being with life, any more than there is a possibility of endowing the eye with light: the endowment consists simply in giving a constitution or structure capable of receiving life or light respectively. Wisdom is mental light, and the understanding is the mind's eye. Thus have we endeavoured to demonstrate, from the wisdom visible in man, not only that God, who gives man all his wisdom, must be Himself wise, and most wise,—but, still farther, that the wisdom seen in any man and in all men, is not so properly the gift of God, as it is the presence of God, operating in and through man,—thus, in fact, that all wisdmn is God's alone.

We proceed now to our second point, namely, to adduce evidences of the goodness of God, as manifested in His spiritual universe, and particularly in the mind, or rather in the heart and life, of man. And here, it