ness-the knowledge of our great and merciful Creator, as far as is necessary for our comfort, and the means afforded us to obtain the final happiness we hope for-that the whole, who love the truth, are raised from the degradation of the malignity of the brute, to the rank of the reasonable man-and, ultimately, from the dignity of the man, to the endless bliss of angels. That the law of God, in reciprocal love and good-will toward each other, with faith in his promises, leads us progressively to that bliss in his own spiritual image, and into one harmonious whole-amidst wisdom infinite, and joys ineffable-to the glory and praise of God through Jesus Christ-our eternal Lord and Benefactor. APPENDIX. THE visible creation is governed by a law, we call gravitation, established and upheld by the will of the Almighty, with all other things during His pleasure; and astronomical observations prove it is regulated on strict mathematical principles: that above the earth upward it decreases in the duplicate ratio of the distance, and below the surface it continues as the distance from the centre, arising from the gravitating parts of its mass being at rest by mutual attraction. We have, therefore, to make manifest, that this law is not only applicable to regulate the necessary payments required to support, and preserve the general order and harmony of a reasonable community, but also that it is consistent with the precepts of our Saviour. The following explanation of the law of falling bodies will show its identity, with the scale which follows it : Let the equal weights y x be attached to a thread, and passed over the pulley Z, constituting, together with the pulley, an inert mass. Let a metal ring be placed on the weight x, to make it preponderate, and give motion to the whole. "If the time of its descent be represented by any portion A B of the side of the triangle A H I, the velocity will be proportional to B C, which is equal to A B, and the space described during the time D E, supposed infinitely short, will be proportional to the area DE FG, which is expressed by the product of B C and DE; consequently the whole area A E F, will represent the space described in the time A E, and A H I, the space described in the time A H; but A H I is half of the square H K, and A E F of E L, the space is therefore always as the square of the time, and is equal to half the space that would be described, in the same time, with the final velocity." Let the preponderating ring be removed at the time A H, the equal weights will continue their motion uniformly with the final velocity, and describe spaces directly as the time. And in the time H M = A H, the space it will describe is represented by the square I M = HK = PN. The scale, which follows, applied as an income tax on real property, is in accordance with the above law, and whenever it shall please the Almighty that it shall be adopted-it will "feed the hungry; clothe the naked; and render to every man his due," only by its justice! It begins with yearly incomes from real property of 50%., assuming that a person could spare ten shillings or one per cent. from it to preserve general order, leaving him 497. 10s. for necessary subsistence and comforts : or it might begin at a higher income, according to the circumstance of each community : |