text:  And indeed to a mind accustomed--as is every educated mind--to regard the operations of Deity as essentially differing from the limited sudden evanescent impulses of a human agent it is distressing to be compelled to picture to itself the power of God as put forth in any other manner than in those slow mysterious universal laws which have so plainly an eternity to work in; it pains the imagination to be obliged to assimilate those operations for a moment to the brief energy of a human will or the manipulations of a human hand