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It seems to be the peculiar mission of modem science to demonstrate the permanency and universality of law; to drive from the universe the very thought of caprice, and to introduce inviolable harmony where was the wildest discord, rudest fancy, and merest fiction. To modem science nothing is more impossible than miracle, nothing more absurd than accident. The rational philosopher recognizes no causes but such as are reducible to law, and all causes are natural and immutable. He discovers the play of law, not only in the motion of a planet and the falling of an apple, but in the prevalence of a crime and the rise of a religion. All things have causes all are in their turn causes, and governed by perfect and consistent law. The thoughts we think, the emotions we feel, and the acts we perform, are links in a chain no effort can break, and that will endure when we shall have crumbled into dust; and in our graves we shall still be governed by a law we obeyed before the cradle of infancy received us.

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