[draft] The [struck: judge] [inserted: mind] of an intelligent man is overpowered with the extent magnitude and effulgence of [struck: creation] [inserted: inanimate nature] Infinitely deversified indeed but every part having an esential [inserted: connection with &] dependance on each other, from an atom up to a world a [strikeout] system, an association of systems untill stretching into [inserted: the immensity of] creation The scale becomes too [lagre] [sic] [strikeout] to be embraced by the imagination of an [inhabitant] of this globe. Analogy Philosophy and Religion teach us that there is also a glorious system of intellectual beings - and although in this stage of our existence we cannot have and define the mode or connection of or spiritual with our corporeal being yet we know enough to induce us to reverence and adore the infinite power by whom we [2] we live more and have our being - The impulse of the moment 21 Augt 1787 The inclosed expressing his [views] of infinite power & wisdom - has been thought worthy of preserving - The language in which they are express[ed] partakes of the sublimity of the subject - Like any thing he utterd - Comprehensive & original - The [Multism] in [Power] seems to be a characteristic of vigorous intellect. [docket] an impulse 21 August 1787