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 cruelty, to the caprice of mankind, who created the Deity and his laws for the protection of their particular species alone.

The Apocalypse of Nature, which testifies and exposes the intimate connection and relation of all matter, must necessarily destroy this partial demon, and his more partial laws, and substitute in his place, a power that demands no personification; and this is the effect of motion, or its instrument of operation, the volition of man, which is the source of all good and evil.

This then is the true and comprehensible power, which demands no adoration, but only the study and attention of mankind to bring it into