Loading ...IN examining a piece of complex and delicate mechanism, suppose it to be the highest triumph of modern genius, the chronometer with the Arnold escapement, the first thing that impresses the eye is the exquisite finish and beauty of the workmanship, and the wonderful regularity and smoothness of the movement ; while the conviction is undoubted, that there is, and must be, not merely a relation, but a fitness of the parts, which are thereby bound together as a whole, in a character of unity, harmony, consistency, and strength. Few, however, are aware, and perhaps no one but the inventor perfectly understands, how peculiarly sensitive and nice has been the adjustment requisite to give it its true value as a measurer of time. If from this beautiful model of perfection in the field of dead matter, we turn our contemplation to the Government of a country, which may be truly described as the living instrument of God’s providence over the ways of His people, and study it with a care proportionate to its vast importance, we find a variety in the parts, so endless that we can hardly discern their number, combined with a concatenation so complex and subtle, that the most skillful analysis can hardly bring their mutual and dependent relations to the light of the eye, and the comprehension of the mind. And thus far the beautiful invention, which we introduced in the beginning to the attention of the reader, resembles, though faintly and at a distance, the Government of a country. But there the resemblance ends.
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