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physical construction demonstrates it. We
have two hands bu. can do but one thing at &
time effectually, and the eff cacy of execu
ton is diminished in proportion to the mul'
tplica,on of objects. Thus we can do one
thing more ef1eclualIy than two, and two
more ef1ectuaIly than three, and such is the
law of the human mind.
All things are thus, and as observation
will teach, subject to the law of gravtatIon
and tha, law in its action, is unit. Jt Is
incapable of division; and in its govern
ment, division is confusion and destruction
Such is its force in the operations of the
mind of man. 1t cannot work by ma]o'
rity.
The law oGgravitaion is the element in
the maintenance and growth Of tree. i
insures the growth of the achole tree and no
Of part, and, if you were to permit only
the action Of Yhe majority OF the law de-
s,ruction would ensue to the tree and this
is as true that part Of a unit cannot main-
tain and cause the growth Of the achole.-
| IF two thirds of the law governs in ule
maintenance and growth of the tree, what
becomes Of the other third
! can rightly make an application Of this
reasoning to Deity himself. The most
gifted and enquiring of the Apostles said,
God is one" or. in other words, he is a
unit (1.) He, suppose, governs himself,
or rather he is self-government The law
Of his goverumen, is then necessarily a
achoze, and ask is i, possible that part OF
himself could govern himself. If such
were the fact there would be an inhe-
rent war, and his character of unity could
not be observed or maintained, for there
would be two gods; and would i, not
produce an instantaneous explosion of his
self government A Analion divided in itself
cannot defend itself against an opposing
force; and so God, being divided by the
inorganic government Of the majority, could
no! only not main!a:n his self-governmen mt
agans. opposing forces, but could not ex-
ert the quIckening power Of creation. A
self-government canno, be divided govern
ment, but if i. were so il is the government
Of another, or a continuous war for the
government of another. The government
Of another is slavery, and The government
of the majority is a continuous contest for
the government Of another.
But it may be said, that the law of di-
vine, is different from human self-govern-
ment. do not suppose that our Creator
would have done otherwise than give US
that law which he found the most effectual
in his own case aud we have good reason
for saying he would not, when he says he
made us in his own image; thatis, since he
experienced the pleasure Of being free to
govern himself, he endowed man with the
same attribute.
We find This legal unity, which the most
inspired Of the divine teachers thus attri-
butes TO God, is prevalent in all the mani
mate creation. No exception is to found.
If you show me one You show me chaos.
will take the world for an example, and
that is one or a unit. All things are at
tracted 10 one centre, or to one, and this one
is unit, and from this unit the world is
expanded 10 what il now is.
But suppose, instead of this central uni
ty, majority was the law of government
where would be thrown the centre Would
it be thrown nearer the north or the south
pole, or on one side or the other? Does
the inorganic action Of the majorily pre-
vailed in the government of the earth, there
would be a continuous succession Of inyo-
lutons and dissolu,ions, and this world
would be that very chaos ont of which il
was brought? The inorganic government
of the majority was that very chaos, and
the application of The law of unanimty was
the birth and establishment of that order
which now exists. Whatever law is appli-
cable TO the government of the earth or
which we live, is applicable to man men
tally and physically, for the two worlds
animate and inanimate are governed by the
same law and this view Of the worlds gov.
ernment furnishes us with the meaning o.
the sentiment uttered by ST. Paul, that "Goc
is one''-,hat The law Of his self-governmen
is not first on one side Of himself and ,heI
on the other, but always right in the centre
from which he is no! expanded but expand:
himself.
Our own Constitution in its elementary
publication Of principles, says the govern
ment is aUhole; and is it not all absolute
absurdity to determine by another part o
the same instrument, that The partsef Car
govern the acholeseJf2 The government o
the ma jori.y is thus unavoidably the work
of another, and not Of ourselves; or, in 9th
er words, it is not selfgovernment. Unan
unity is sef-government and not the WORK
Of another, because ALL then govern, ant
no, part, and The government of part, o
the majority, is an impraclicability. Th,
majority Of the earth could not govern th'
whole, because that majority would TAX
care of itself and not of another; and this
accounts for the reason why men canno
be trusted with power, because it is Law
of their nature that they should absorl
everything within themselves, just as tn
major part of the earth would absorb every
thing within itself By the law Of creation