According to this imagery, God is viewed as the First Efficient and the ultimate Final Cause in a circular chain of causes and effects of which He is at once the first link and the lasta conception which, in so far as it brings God inside the system of nature as part thereof, is, like the last, only analogously true, and may not be pressed too far in its consequences.

The consideration of such additional provision was brought before appropriate committees of the two Houses of Congress, in answer to calls made by them, in reports prepared, with my sanction, by the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy on the 29th of December and the 8th of January lasta mode of communication with Congress not unusual, and under existing circumstances believed to be most eligible.

This opinion has been in some degree confirmed by actual experience since the discontinuance of the banks as fiscal agents in May lasta period which from the embarrassments in commercial intercourse presented obstacles as great as any that may be hereafter apprehended.