Excerpt from Ethics: The Union and the Constitution; The Standard of Union and Liberty If we were told that a time-piece had been found of a construction never before known, and set -in motion by'a power never before used or discovered - that its motions 'were regulated 'neither by a pendulum, a balance or: a sp1'ing;.but in a way with which we are unacquainted - that this machine kept good time and pointed out every hour and minute of the day with the regularity and exactness of a clock, we should 'not conjecture that this might be the work of an uninteligent author. The fact that we were unacquainted with the nature of the machinery, 'instead of weakening our conclusions that it was produced without design, would only serve to increase our Opinion of the genius and wisdom of the contriver. 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.