Excerpt from Paul the Missionary: And Other Studies We are lost in contemplation of the grandeur of the universe, at its seemingly infinite extension. Intelligence surely there is in the designing but why the discord, were it only Of the elements the waste, the imperfection, the decay? We read with dismay of the havoc of the earthquake which engulfs its tens Of thousands. Scarce less are we awed in presence of the past, at the re suscitation of these monsters of destruction. To whatever extent in the descending scale sensation deadens whether the throe of a worm be at all commensurate with the anguish when a giant dies: or the pain which is possible to a moth be as acute as that which devolves upon a mammoth, we are concerned but indirectly: we cannot change the orderings of nature. But we are bound by the circumstances of birth to re spond by active fellowship in our human sphere, wherever sympathy is feasible. The law finds its force in its reasonable persuasiveness, because of our mutual necessities: the ready inspiration of Mosaic precept. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.