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Rh the right arm more than the left. But what, let me ask, is the cause and source of this astonishing, this universally extended harmony? Whence comes it to pass, or by what hidden law, that amongst all generations of men from the beginning of the world, and throughout the countless families of human beings in every part of the habitable globe, it was rarely, if ever, known that this harmony was interrupted? I am persuaded, that, in accounting for this phenomenon, you will never have the boldness, or rather the folly, to ascribe it to chance; because your own good sense will convince you, that what is commonly called chance is a mere imaginary agent, which has no real existence, and still less operation, except in the fancies of the thoughtless and irreligious. The phenomenon then is absolutely unaccountable on any other ground, than that of the Divine revelation which teaches, “Thus saith Jehovah that made thee, and formed thee from the womb,” [Isaiah xlii. 2.]. And again, “And now saith Jehovah, that formed me from the womb to be His servant,” [Isaiah xlix. 5.]. If then we believe in this revelation, we are constrained to believe also, that the harmony, of which we are speaking, hath its origin in the and ; that it is a stupendous effect of that Divine goodness, and wisdom, raid power, by which all things were originally created;