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Excerpt from Mechanics' Magazine, and Register of Inventions and Improvements, Vol. 3: January June, 1834
In conclusion, we wish to impress upon the minds of our readers the following eloquent remarks of Dr. Drcx, in his treatise on the Diffusion of Knowledge A man, whose mind is enlightened with true science, perceives throughout all nature the most standing evidences of benevolent design, and rejoices in the benignity of the great Parent of the universe, while he perceives nothing in the arrangement of the Creator, in any department of his works, which has a direct tendency to produce pain to any intelligent or sensitive existence. The superstitious man, on the contrary, contemplates the air, the waters, and the earth, as filled with malicious beings, ever ready to haunt him with terror, or to plot his destruo tion. The one contemplates the Deity directing the movements of the material world by fixed and invariable laws, which none but himself can counteract or suspend; the other views them as continually liable to be controlled by capricious and malignant beings, to gratify the most trivial and unworthy passions. How very different, of course, must be their conceptions and feelings respecting the attributes and government of the Supreme Being! While the one views him as an infinitely wise and benevolent Father, whose paternal care and goodness inspire confidence and affection, the other must regard him as a capricious being, and offer up his adorations under the in?uence of fear.
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