text:  But they convey at least to my own feelings a confidence a solemn security a calm yet ardent conviction that chance has no share in the government of the world; that the great tide of things in its rise and fall has laws which if unapproached by the feebleness of human faculties are not the less true vast and imperishable; that if like the air the agency of that ruling and boundless authority is invisible we may yet feel its existence in its effects rejoice in the acknowledgment of a power which nothing can exhaust and take to our bosoms the high consolation that the good of man is the supreme principle of the system