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who kindly examined a portion of his manuscript; to Profs. J. D. Dana and B. Silliman, of Yale College, and Prof. J. S. Newberry, of Columbia College, for personal favors received during the preparation of his book.

He has also availed himself of the published writings of Rev. Thomas Hill, D.D., late President of Harvard University; of Rev. F. H. Hedge, D.D., from whom the subject of one of these lectures is borrowed with the author's consent, and to Dr. J. W. Dawson, of McGill College, Montreal, though from the latter he differs somewhat widely on va rious points.

MERIDEN, CONN.

J. H. C.

I.

PRIMEVAL CHAOS.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."

"Not to the domes, where crumbling arch and column Attest the feebleness of mortal hand,

But to that fane, most catholic and solemn,

Which God hath planned."

-LONGFELLOW.

"The tokens of a central force,

O'erlap and move the universe;

The workings of the law whence springs
The rhythmic harmony of things,
Which shapes in earth the darkling spar,
And orbs in heaven the morning star."

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