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"WHEN YOUTHFUL SPRING AROUND US BREATHES, THY SPIRIT WARMS HER FRAGRANT Sigh,

AND EVERY FLOWER THE SUMMER WREATHES,

Is BORN BENEATH THAT KINDLING EYE :

WHERE'ER WE TURN, THY GLORIES SHINE,

AND ALL THINGS FAIR AND BRIGHT ARE THINE."--Moore

AUTHOR'S ADVERTISEMENT.

In this Volume, the argument for the Divine perfections from the works of Nature, entered upon in the two preceding volumes of 'Winter' and 'Spring,' is continued. Organized life has now passed, or is rapidly passing, from a state of developement to a state of perfection; and, Winter having been considered as the period of gestation, and Spring as that of production, Summer is here viewed as the season of maturity. This is not, indeed, strictly true; for many of our fruits, and the cereal plants, are, in our climate, still only in progress, and do not ripen till the autumnal months; while numbers of the animal tribes are, at present, but in the early stage of their existence ;-and, in this respect, to man all seasons are alike. It is, however, the general character of the season that is to be considered; and classification is more important, in a work of this kind, than a strict attention to dates.

In this, as in the other volumes, I have commenced with a view of the various cosmical arrangements by which the season is distinguished and rendered salutary, and have thence passed to the consideration of vegetable life; and thence again to that of the various powers and functions of animal life,-keeping always in view the reference which every thing evidently bears to the only rational being whom it has pleased the Eternal to place

in this lower world, or, at all events, to subject to the operation of the senses.

The Volume next contains some notices of Man, himself, as regards his physical, intellectual, and moral powers; and closes with a summary of the argument which this analysis of Nature has exhibited.

In thus ranging through the whole bounds of creation, where the materials are so unlimited in their extent and variety, I have ever found it much more difficult to determine what might, without prejudice to the argument, be rejected, than what might be usefully chosen. All Nature, in its various kingdoms, in all its orders, in all its species, in every individual modification, proclaims the perfections of the Creator. In such superabundance, however, I have had the advantage of easily avoiding what was abstruse and recondite; while my object has been to select what was most interesting and most easily understood, as well as important, striking, and conclusive.

CONTENTS.

AUTHOR'S ADvertisement,

COSMICAL ARRANGEMENTS.

1. SUNDAY.-Summer the Perfection of the Year,

Increased Heat,

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Internal Heat of the Earth,

Increased Light,

Electricity,
Clouds,

Dew,

II. SUNDAY.-Scriptural Allusions to the Dew,

Adaptations of the Faculties of Living Beings to the
Properties of Light and Air,

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IV. SUNDAY.-Spiritual Soil,

Productions of Warm Climates used for Human Food.

-The Banana-The Date Palm,

Trees used for other Purposes than Food,

Vegetable Substances used in Tanning,

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