NATURE nursing in vain her warring children, benighted by the artifices of Priestcraft and Politics; Philosophy consumes their screen in order todisplay the universality of transmutations:

For Self and Nature link'd in one great frame,
Shows true Self-love and Nature's as the same.

Eternal matter to one centre brings

Men changed to beasts, and insects changed to kings.

Who dares with force on Nature's chain to strike,

On Self, which changing never quits the chain

In life or death, transmits or joy or pain.

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THE

BIBLE OF NATURE,

AND

SUBSTANCE OF VIRTUE.

CONDENSED FROM THE SCRIPTURES

OF EMINENT COSMIANS, PANTHEISTS AND PHYSIPHILAN
THROPISTS, OF VARIOUS AGES AND

us R. Ames,

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SECOND EDITION.

WITH THE FORMER EDITION DILIGENTLY COMPARED AND REVISED.

Stereotyped by C. Van Benthuysen, Albany.

NEW-YORK.

PUBLISHED BY G. VALE, BEACON OFFICE,
No. 3, Franklin Square.

Price, $1,50 single copy, $15,00 per dozen, $100 per hundred.

1849.

MAY 27 1902

THE NAMES AND ORDER OF THE BOOKS OF
THE BIBLE OF NATURE.

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AUTHORITIES.

Πάλις και Πατρίς, ως μεν Αντωνίνω μοι η Ρωμη, ως δε Ανθρωπω,

ὁ κόσμος.

M. A. Antoninus. Democritus. Τι γαρ εστιν Ανθρωπος, μέρος πόλεως, της μεγάλης και της

Ψυχης αγαθης Πατρις ο Συμπας Κοσμος.

μικράς.

Epictetus. Socrates did not style himself an Athenian or a Grecian, but a Cosmian, that is, a citizen of the world. Plutarch. Unus interitus est hominis et jumentorum, æqua utriusque conditio. Ecclesiastes.

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. Terence. Spiritus intus alit, et magno se corpore miscet. Virgil. Virtus est nihil aliud quam in se perfecta, et ad summum perduct a Natura.

Cicero.

Persius.

Lucan.

De nihilo nil, in nihilum nil posse reverti. Non sibi, sed toto genitum se credere mundo. The whole World is man's country, and humanity never wants materials.

Seneca.

The suppressor of a useful truth, is as guilty as the propagator of an injurious falsehood.

Nature is made better by no mean,

But Nature makes that mean ;

Art does mend Nature, change it rather;
But the art itself is Nature.

St. Augustine.

Shakespeare.

Pope.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Art is only Nature acting with the tools that she has made. D'Holback. The greatest good, of the greatest number, for the greatest length of time. Bentham. My country is the World, my religion is to do good. Paine. Action and reaction are equal in the moral as in the natural world. Clarkson. Le triomphe de la lumière sera toujours favorable à la grandeur et à l'amélioration de l'espèce humaine.

Mme de Stael. Nulle erreur ne peut être utile, comme nulle vérité ne peut nuire. De Maistre.

Il n'y a dans la Nature ni nobles, ni parias; ni maîtres ni esclaves; ni Français, ni Allemands, ni Anglais : il y a des hommes! Notre âme embrasse le monde, et s'élance encore au-delà. L. Aime-Martin.