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134 his own kindred and home laden with the riches of foreign climes. It scours the surface of our globe, investigates the numerous vegetables of the verdant kingdom; marks their genera, their species, their different properties, their agencies, especially in arresting the ravages of disease to which man is liable in this state of discipline and trial. It penetrates the bowels of the earth and explores the wonders and riches of the mineral kingdom. It mounts up to heaven; up, at a dizzy height, and there observes the circuitous pathway of the planets, and with its vast line measures them as they roll along in the wide expanse. The order and regularity that obtain among men flow from this source. We sometimes see different nations involved in angry disputes, and led to the very point of bringing about all the horrors of a desolating war. Fortunately, however, superior wisdom in due season rises up in her majesty and makes her voice heard above the "sound of many