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463 increasing, 246 ; extent of, 246, 318 ; to God, supreme, 251 ; continuous, 253 ; ever increasing, 254 ; varying, 254 ; uni- versal, 255 ; failure in, remediless, 255 ; susceptible of increase from without, 257 ; ground of, 257 ; moral, distinct from wrong, 260. Locke regarded the truth of our notion respecting anything as depending on the conformity of our idea of it with the outward reality ; Kant, on the contrary, made it to depend on the validity of the understanding itself, from whose constructive laws the outward object receives its form. But even this strongly marked group is not isolated : for to say nothing of the grammatical affinities between the Chinese and Burmese languages ; j the Tibetan language is, " in some respects intermediate between the monosyllabic lan- guages in general and the Mongolian," which is one of the Turanian group. After admitting that death is an evil, he adds, " that man might have been created immortal, is not denied ; but if it were the will of the Deity to form a limited being, and to place him upon the earth for only a certain period of time, his death was the necessary consequence of this determination. 14, Conscious non-restraint in volition freedom an ultimate fact motives, not objective powers character and motive re-act idea of a cause first given by the. " When it speaks or wills, it wills with the authority of His infinite nature. 22, Man's wants multiplied indefinitely by the diversity of character which sin makes possible. And the emotion is found susceptible of the various modifications of con- cern, sorrow, distress, and does tramadol cause itching anguish, answering to the states of deprivation, affliction, pain or danger of the objects contem- plated. 392 THIRD PART. As he is a being intellectual and emo- tional, his school becomes a temple, in which objects innumera- ble compete for his admiration and regard. 23, The unity of the species. Was his freedom a reality? And, if so, the only conclusion left u& is, that the creation of matter preceded the production of mind. But here their companionship terminates. both the subjective and the objective, has so harmonized moral and material loveliness, as to typify and express the idea that " the First Good and the First Fair " are one. 19, Three opinions. Or else, professing to admit the exist- ence, providence, and perfections of God, he may live for pur- poses which keep all does tramadol cause itching these out of his sight, and which place him in constant collision with the Divine will. And the more the light of Nature is consulted, the more is the domain of conscience does tramadol cause itching enlarged, and its authority illustrated. But there is also a chronological order to be noticed. However strong the Christian's conviction, on independent grounds, of a heavenly state, yet it is on the wings of imagination that he ascends and foretastes its blessedness. Everything around us invites us to assert it. While every word, expressing does tramadol cause itching as it does at first the relation of some one thing, comes to denote the analo- gous relations of a number of other things ; and even his own faculties and mental phenomena derive their names mostly from the sensible properties of matter. What, then, is the great uniting principle of which these varieties are only the particular modifications ? Now, the primal law, implied, as we have seen, not only that the whole of man's constitution was in harmony with itself, but that it was in perfect adjustment to the whole objective uni- verse, including God himself. Apart from that constitution, these laws have no intel- lectual nor moral meaning. reason has made this discovery, the questions remain, whether that does tramadol cause itching moral approbation does not imply a distinct moral quality in actions ? Doubtless, ever since there has been an intelligent eye to behold them, the mere splendor, numbers, and magni- PREFACE. In my remarks on this important subject, I would by no means imply that virtue may not ultimately coincide with utility the great moral law with the greatest happiness. And the Divine appointment that man should take possession of the earth, and have dominion over it, plainly re- ferred us to each other's help, and implied the mutual depend- ence and co-operation of social life. Superior still is the influence which man possesses, both over himself and over others, in " having power with God " in prayer. By resisting them, he would only diminish his own proper power, does tramadol cause itching and lose the use perhaps of some of those muscular or- gans and instruments which are already does tramadol cause itching placed at the disposal of his own personal will ; but by falling in with them, and avail- ing himself of them, he can, in effect, multiply these organs PROGRESSION. " Everything is related to everything. " In this exercise we see the human will essaying to put itself in communication with the Divine will : and the question arises, how God can answer prayer without in- fringing on his own immutability, or altering the course and constitution of nature ? The progress of science is retrogressive to nature. The material point is, that such agency, or influence, was not essential to his free agency. Among different motives to an action, we are conscious of answerableness for does tramadol cause itching acting from the right motive. For example, * So Paley in his Mor. Even life is DEVELOPMENT. Let us, then, look rie^ttto the subjective reasons for man's immortality, or to those derivable from his constitution as view- ed in the light of Divine government. From eternity it has resided in Him in whom fact and right are one. Not satisfied with free- dom, he had essayed independence. We feel that it is right, anterior to, and independently of, our perception of it ; and that our perception of it is simply owing to a certain faculty with which we are endowed for that purpose. Thirdly, that the sabbath was not instituted, but only restored, in the wilderness, appears from the fact, that even prior to the promulgation of the law on Sinai, the people spontaneously gathered a double quantity of manna on the sixth day ; that Moses notices the sabbath on that occasion only incidentally, rendering no ex- planation of its nature, and no reason for its observance, as if both were too well known to make it necessary. This law of subordination applies to the different parts of the human constitution. But, sixthly, besides this similarity in the sensation de- rived by each from the objects described, the words employed must convey to the hearer does tramadol cause itching the same thoughts and impressions as those which prompt the speaker to utter them. In the actual constancy of Nature, we behold its fulfilment. Now this is only saying that man, besides having a physical, organic, and animal nature, will be also an intelligent, moral, and accountable being, and this will bring to light the moral perfection of the Deity that Holiness of nature, or subjective excellence, by which He has complacency in all moral goodness does tramadol cause itching ; and that Justice, or objec- tive excellence, by which he exhibits His holiness in retributive acts. While, in conducting the great scheme to its remotest issues, it will be seen that the power of man was always made the measure of his responsibility, and that no form of evil ever came into being for which that scheme did not contain the most benevolent provision. We might proceed to show that the man- ner in which the material is made to balance, yet subserve, the spiritual in his constitution, and in which the conditions of lib- erty and of government are harmonized, imply relations and adjustments unfathomably profound. When he first announced the theoretic possibility that, with a point to stand on, he could lift the world, he seemed to lift higher the arched heavens above him, and indefinitely enlarged the horizon of his mental activity. In the same moment in which the shadow appeared, the substance itself was coming into view. He is liable to the scepticism which arises feom overlooking the facts that proof, as a process, is not universally necessary nor possible ; * that different subjects require different kinds of evi- dence ; that all evidence, not demonstrative, admits of degrees ; that the convincing power of all such evidence depends materi- ally on the state of the mind ; that the right does tramadol cause itching order of examining the claims of a system is to look first at its proofs, not at the objections to it ; and that there is a substantial sense in which the belief of all moral truth is voluntary. When both the object or event and the circumstances admit of no explanation, the mind does tramadol cause itching is left in a state of wonder. Accordingly, " as philosophy advances, the properties of matter are found to be fewer and simpler ; which the Creative Wisdom so combines and directs as to produce the most diversified, and, at first does tramadol cause itching sight, opposite results. The very struc- ture of the mind forbids it. Such a creature appears in the person of man. An exercise of this description was one of the first to which the Divine Creator solicited the mind of his new-made creature. Just as, perhaps, angelic be- ings, on the other hand, did vaguely infer, from an inspection of that world, the constitution of the being for whom it was designed. The belief of the evidence of the fact, prepared the way for the apprehension and admis- sion of the fact does tramadol cause itching