as the most intimate relation of the Creator on this
globe, and discovering in him no designs beyond the cultivation of the
great faculty of thought for time, the inference was natural that his
future was not for time, or time's uses. That all was only fitting the
soul, which his instincts tell him exists within, when, refined by
time, and the probation of life, for the independence, and the
fruition of the sublime designs of God in eternal life, he should
ascend to his destined sphere, etherialized, and know his Creator and
the future of his being; when speculation should cease, and reality
and unambiguous truth be made manifest. Of this great truth his mind
was so fully impressed that all his life was by it governed. His
convictions were palpable in his conduct, for it was in strict
conformity with these opinions. The aberrations from virtue and the
laws of morals, as established by man for the better regulation of his
conduct toward his fellow-men, he deemed the result of improper
education, and especially the education of the heart, and the want of
the training this gives to the natural desires of his organization.
That these desires, passions, and instincts, are given as essential to
his mission in time, and those properly educated, trained, and
directed, are necessary to his fulfilment of life's duties, in the
perfection of the Creator's design, and, when so educated and
directed, secure to the individual, and to society, the consummation
of this design; but when perverted, become a punishment to both
society and the individual, for the neglect of a prime duty; and
belong alone to time. Similar results he saw from similar causes, in
the operations of inanimate life. The design of the tree was to grow
upward, but an unnatural obstacle, in the falling of another, bends it
away, and its growth is perverted from the original design, yet it
grows on and completes the cycle of its destiny.

The stream flows onward, naturally obeying a natural law; but an
obstacle interposes and interrupts the design; still it will go on to
complete its cycle, obedient to its destiny, though turned from its
natural channel: and these are the same in the end with those
undisturbed in the fulfilment of their designs. All crime or vice is
of time, and made such by the laws of man. The aggregation of men into
societies or communities necessitate laws to establish moral, legal,
and political duties, and to provide punishments for the infracti