i62 A NATURAL HISTORY 



W E may obferve the like mechanic Perception in feveral 

 empty Drinking-GlaiTes, of fine white Metal. Thus if we caufe 

 the Strins:s of a muiical Inftrument to be ftretched to a certain 

 Tone or Note, it would make one of the GlafTcs ring, and not the 

 other ; nor would the Sound of the fime String, tuned to another, 

 fenfibly affed: the iame Glafs. Morhoff' mentions one Pettei\ a 

 Dutchman^ who could break Rummer-Giaiies with the Tone of 

 his Voice. The fame, I think, is fiid o^FurceL 



When two Viols are tuned in Unifon, one of them being 

 touch'd, the other will anfwer, tho' at fome diRance. This is a 

 noble Proof of an harmonious Creation : This Unifon looks like 

 a more pure fort of fympathifmg that is found in all the Crea- 

 tures, when thofe of the fame Species flock together. 



PIe R E give m.e leave to obferve, that all Nature is as it were 

 a Syllem of divine Mulick, and delightful Plarmony 3 or, in the 

 facred Language, a Foem which is a Work of Skill, curious and 

 polite, lofty and fublime ; in which Numbeis and Meafures are 

 exadily obferved. Under this Idea of a Poem the old and new 

 Creation are reprefented. 



'THE, invijihle things of him from the Creation of the World are 

 clearly Jeen, being under food by the things that are jnad?, to;? "oi-a<x%(t\. *, 

 Poems that are made. The Creation is, as it were, a Foem in 

 the Sublime : Every Species of created Beings is a Sta?iza, and 

 every individual Creature, a Verfe in it, as a certain learned Di- 

 vine expreffes it. Creation here is not ftilcd £p>oy, which is a 

 Work of manual Labor, but iroi-Au.x-]', a V/ork of Skill ; not fo 

 much the Operation of the Hand, as of the Head and Heart : 

 No Creature fo fmall and mean, but glitters with a Beam of di- 

 vine Skill. 



So the new Creation is Ail'd a Po??n .... JFe are his Worlirnan- 

 jffjip in Chri/} yifiiSy Eph. ii. 10, In the Grcek^ ive are his Poem 

 in Chriji fefiis. 



As for the feveral IVIoods, whicli, in mufical Compofiiion, 

 were obferved by the Anticnts, for moving particular Pafiions, 

 there is a remarkable Fragment of D.^nion the Mufician, men- 

 tioned by Arijlides in Plutarch. This is fuppofed to be that kind 

 of Mufick ufed by David and Elijha^ as a Preicription to remove 

 mental Diforders j and may fuppofe to point at the Original of 



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