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Excerpt from St. Pierre's Studies of Nature, Vol. 1
The present American edition of st. Pierre's studies or nature cannot be better introduced to the World, than in the nervous and elegant language of dr. Hunter's Preface to the London edition.
I have read,' says he, few performances with more complete satisfaction, and with greater improve ment, than the studies OF nature in no one have I found the useful and the agreeable more happily blended. What work ofscience displays a more sublime theology, inculcates a purer morality, or breathes a more ardent and more expansive philan thropy? St. Pierre has enabled me to contemplate the Universe with other eyes, has furnished new arguments to combat Atheism, has established be yond the power of contradiction the doctrine of a universal Providence, has excited a warmer interest in favour of suffering humanity, and has disclosed sources unknown of intellectual enjoyment. Unfet tered by system, unawed by authority, he looks im mediately into Nature: he observes, he thinks, he reasons for himself; and teaches his Reader thus to observe, think, and reason.'
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