On Natkitciband Moral PkMvpMfi SW5 



stitution, prorisionary for its future display, 

 and that there is ir perfect similarity of plan in 

 the adaptation of every being and order of 

 beings in the universe for answerinj^ the pur- 

 pose contemplated^ by its author, 1 have, in-- 

 decd, so. iaras regards morale produced no 

 otlier argument in 'favour of tliis conclusion 

 bcsitle analogy ; but then it is analogy so sin*- 

 gular, that if the statement on which the ana 

 logical inference depends be admitted as a fact, 

 and arry one shall deny the conclusion, we may 

 venture to assert^ that it is not his mind, but 

 his voice that pronounces the rejecting NCX 

 I'here are other con*oborating arguments which 

 lead to the same conclusion, but on account of 

 the extent to which they would carry the sub- 

 jectv more proper to be introduced into a regu- 

 lar composition, which contemplates the whole, 

 than into an essay, which contemplates only a 

 part. If I were even disposed to extend my 

 view^ the limits of time assigned to the papers 

 read before this Society do not admit of it. 



Jt is this principle, common to every order 

 of cieatcd beings, which constitutes the con- 

 nection that 1 meant to insist upon, because, 



and thuncu dtrrive to ,tho \cry nature which l»c Ivm in 



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