...sufficient, that "He feeds the sacred fire By which the mighty process is maintain'd, Who sleeps not nor is weary ; in whose sight, Slow circling ages are as transient days ; Whose work is without labor, whose Designs, ffoflaw defects, nor difficutty thwarts, And whose Beneficence no change exhausts."...

..."He feeds the sacred fire By which the mighty process is maintain'd. Who sleeps not nor is weary ; '" whose sight, Slow circling ages are as transient days ; Whose work is without labor, whose Designs, JVoflaw defect!, nor difficulty thwartt, And whose Beneficence no change exhausts."...

...repeating, some passage of his favourite poet, " ever remembering," as he himself has observed, that " Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God." One main object which Mr. Wilberforce proposed to himself during his summer-retirements, was " to watch...

...and dies, Designs the blooming wonders of the next." "The Ix>rd of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature...is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God." " One spirit — His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows, Hules universal nature! Not...

...THE COUNTRY-SIDE. Country-Side Notes* Warham, Norfolk. The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God. — COWPER'S " Task." * * * AMONG our Nature Records this week is one from a good observer in North...

...and dies. Designs the blooming wonders of the next. The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused. Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God. One spirit — His, Who wore the platted thorns with bleeding brows — Rules universal nature. Not...

...ceaseless force, And under pressure of a conscious Cause ? The Lord of all, Himself through all diffused, Sustains and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect Whose cause is God." This is saying in poetry what Sir Isaac Newton had said in one of his grand aphorisms, " Dcus sine...

...of all that lives. rvi ^A^O^—f^^ V\ ViV^ / Nature is but a name for an effect I - > SJ^^ ' . V*^ Whose cause is God. He feeds the secret fire By which the mighty process is maintained, Who sleeps not, is not weary ; in whose sight Slow-circling ages are as transient days...

...everywhere in evidence, and have dwelt upon the perfection attainable by man when he should see that "nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God." In the history of human progress, however, the black and bitter winter of unrest, discontent, and change...

...Throughout the whole poem Cowper illustrated the truth of his fine definition of the All-Father — " Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God." One of his most beautiful passages indicates how largely his mind was saturated with nature-worship...