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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872,

BY LAURENS P. HICKOK,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,

19 Spring Lane.

IN closing the work of "Creator and Creation," it was noted that the full Idea of Humanity could be comprehended only in a history of man through his trial, fall, redemption, and resurrection to eternal Life; and the design to give, in an anticipated opportunity, such a history was intimated. That history, as then contemplated, is here accomplished. In that speculative work we found the Universe constituted a Cosmos of order and beauty from essential Forces, both material and ethereal; and such essential Forces, put in motion round their creative source, worked themselves into separate spheres, and distributed the spheres into revolving suns and planetary Systems. However other worlds may have their dead matter quickened into life, on our earth an Organizing Instinct was, by the Creator, superinduced upon a portion of the ethereal Atoms as an assimilative life-power, communicating itself to and working in other mechanical forces to build them up in living bodies, and so from the Mineral kingdom'were formed the plants and trees of the Vegetable kingdom; and out of and above this were wrought the nervous organisms for sentient life in the Animal kingdom; and

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