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But I would here give attention to a remarkable illustration of natural law which has been brought forward by Mr. Babbage, in his Ninth Bridgewater Treatise.

The reader is requested to suppose himself seated before the calculating machine, and to observe it. It is moved by a weight, and there is a wheel which revolves through a small angle around its axis, at short intervals, presenting to his eye successively, a series of many numbers engraved on its divided circumference.

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Let the figures thus seen be the series, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, &c., of natural numbers, each of which exceeds its immediate antecedent by unity.
"Now, reader," says Mr. Babbage, " let me ask you how long you will have counted before you are firmly convinced that the engine has been so adjusted, that it will continue, while its motion is maintained, to produce the same series of natural numbers?

Some minds are so constituted, that, after passing the first hundred terms,