And that that was the cause, and this the effect, is demonstrated when, by the skill of the surgeon, those parts have been interfered with.

Nor does the development, the metamorphosis, end here; it requires many years for the body to reach its full perfection, many years for the mind.

A culmination is at length reached, and then there is a decline.

I need not picture its mournful incidents--the corporeal, the intellectual enfeeblement.

Perhaps there is little exaggeration in saying that in less than a century every human being on the face of the globe, if not cut off in an untimely manner, has passed through all these changes.
Is there for each of us a providential intervention as we thus pass from stage to stage of life?
or shall we not rather believe that the countless myriads of human beings who have peopled the earth have been under the guidance of an unchanging, a universal law?
But individuals are the elementary constituents of communities--nations.
They maintain therein a relation like that which the particles of the body maintain to the body itself.