negations, Jhis is our Condition, whatever may
be our views of nature.” ‘This, put in other words,
literally means, that, from the conformation of the
reviewer's mind, he is unable to form a higher con-
ception of the Divinity, than that of an all-powerful,
but humanized being; for human attributes mean
this, or nothing. It follows, then, that he cannot
conceive the great Maker of the machine breathing
such a breath of life into it at the beginning, as
shall be sufficient for all the changes it has, and
ever shall undergo. No, this, with our reviewer,
would be little, if any, short of blasphemy. He
must have his timepiece wound up periodically, and
that, too, at short intervals, and by the direct