Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Baptist Magazine for 1821, Vol. 13 This sentiment appears so ta tional, that the very heathens have professed their belief of it. They justly concluded, since a man might search through crea tion, and gain all that the world could possibly confer on him, and yet find something that it could not give essential to his happi ness, that he was made for a no bler world than the present, and that his nature was immortal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.