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 On natural and MORAL 



PHILOSOPHY, 



AND THE 



Proper Manner of Philosophising in both. 



BY 



The Rev. G. WALKER, R R. S. 



Read March sth, 1802. 



IN the works of a powerful, wise and design- 

 ing artist, whoever this artist be, we expqct a 

 similarity of general plan ; that there be in 

 each an end, and a respectable end in view ; 

 that the means be adapted to the end ; that 

 there be neither superfluity nor defect of means ; 

 that the means be sirhple, but extensive in 

 their operation ; and that the manner of ex- 

 ecuting one work, and producing the end 

 contemplated therein, do not deviate from the 

 manner in another, more than the nature of 

 the subject requires. 



Thus, if the universe, of which ourselves 

 are a part, be referred to a powerful, wise and 

 designing author s and if it be not, it is, though 



