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diforder or disturbance created thereby in the whole; but every part, and every motion of that part, is as well preferved, as if all the reft had been particularly defigned for that only. And though we can never be able to discover all the uses and designs, for which every particular part of the creation was made, or to which it ferves; yet from what we can discover, we may reasonably conclude, that every part has its use in the whole, and that every thing is wifely suited to fome excellent purpose or other, though we cannot find it An unfkilful man, that tranfiently looks upon fome curious engine, confifting of many fine parts and intricate motions of great variety, cannot readily difcern to what use every particular wheel or pin ferves; yet if he fees the general use of the whole, he would be esteemed a fool indeed, if he should immediately conclude, that this or that part had no use at all, because he could not presently discover to what end it ferved. So for us to pretend, to know all the ufes for which every particular part of the creation was made, or to which it may be applied, is great arrogance, proceeding from want of experience: to think they were defigned for no use, is a weakness easily confuted by those who have

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more skill: And to deny that things were defigned for thofe ufes, to which we see them always conftantly answer, is as manifeftly unreasonable, and argues very narrow conceptions of the Divine Knowledge and Defign; as if he could not intend things for the uses we do know, because he defigned them for more than we know: For this must be the refult of their reafonings, who forbid us to take notice of, or enquire after, final Caufes. But many relations and correfpondences of things we can evidently fee, being more nearly concerned in them, and confequently may know some of their obvious and manifest uses for which they were made. As for inftance, We can perceive a manifeft fitness in the organs of fenfation, of every animal, to those objects with which it has occafion to converse, and to the medium, through which it is to perceive them, in fuch a manner as conduces moft to its prefervation. Thus the and visible objects, and light, by which those objects are seen, have fuch a mutual respect to each other, that, if any one were wanting, the other would be imperfect or useless. And the like may be faid of the ear and founds, and the undulation of air by which those founds are conveyed. And fo for the other

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other fenfes and their respective objects. And thus in every part of nature which we have any tolerable acquaintance withal; even from the vaft heavenly bodies, as the Sun, Moon and Planets, down to the smallest infect upon our earth, we may observe one thing fuited to another, with the most exact congruity: So that we may say, all Nature is but one mighty work of one Almighty and All-wife Architect.

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continuance and propagation of their feveral kinds, we cannot eafily forbear to admire the Bounty as well as Wisdom of Providence appearing therein. I do not here defign to enter upon an exact defcription, either of the various kinds of Animals, or the particular ftructure of all the feveral parts of any one animal, or fo much as to fhew the exquifite formation of any particular part, much less all the feveral uses to which fuch parts are made to ferve: Such particular descriptions of things require a long difcourfe, and are much better apprehended by ocular inspection, than by any discourse whatever which can be made without it. I can only hint at a few of those things which are obvious and easy to be observed, but not to be accounted for without a fuperintending Providence. Such, for inftance, is the diftinction of Sexes in all Animals (that being the means by which the species is continued) and the due proportion of the numbers of each fex to the other, which has been conftantly kept from the beginning. This quite deftroys all fuppofition of fpontaneous, or æquivocal generation, even in leffer animals, and fhews the abfurdity of imagining that any real animal, and especially mankind, could ever be produced by Chance, or a ca

fual motion and concourfe of atoms of which they confift. For not to infift upon the exquifite formation of all the internal as well as external parts of each Animal, in which we cannot observe any thing either fuperfluous or deficient; how is it poffible, if they had fprung up out of the earth like mushrooms, that so nice a proportion of Sexes fhould be kept in their first production, and that they fhould by natural instinct know, that they were mutually defigned for each other, and. that the fucceeding generations were to be produced in a way fo very different from the firft? Such again is the mighty care which Animals have of their young, both to feed and defend them, till they are able to shift for themselves; the ftrange different natural inftincts of various creatures, and yet, in all of the fame fpecies, conftantly the fame; each Animal knowing and providing its proper food and fhunning what is improper: The natural fense which every creature has of its own proper weapon of defence, and the way of ufing it without teaching, as well as of the enemies it is to fecure itself againft: The wonderful fagacity, diligence and application of fome creatures: The admirable art and contrivance of fome, even very small animals, in

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