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 eternize the tranquillity and happiness of all sensitive nature.

The adoration of the effect of moral motion in volition, or self in system, should be formed by the example of the Guebers, or worshippers of the sun, who contemplated its effects alone, and direct its congenial rays to the purposes of subsistence, and comforts of life. So should the children of nature direct the congenial emotions of the volition, or self, in system, to procure a happiness to all sensitive nature, the only adoration a pure and perfect intelligence can admit of. Were the Guebers to neglect the effect, and reason only upon the cause or essence of the sun, the physical world would be effected with the same disorders the moral world