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" \cry motions, wliicli are cominonlv caTcd natural and vita!, as 

 " tlioie cf the heart, lu. gs, and intellines, which perfevere thioi'gh 

 " the whole courfe of life, even when rhe wih cannot be coi leintd 

 " in them, as they have their beginning from the mind, fo they are 

 *' I'erpetUiilly under its dirtiiion. " 



Sir Ifaac Newton, in that part of his works above quoted, ex- 

 preflles himfelf as follows : " All material things feem to have been 

 " compoied of the hard and folid particles above menticntd, var'oufly 

 •' ailociated in the firit Creation, by thecounfel of an intelligent Agent. 

 " For, it became him who created them, to fet them in order. And, 

 " if he did fo, it is unphilofopliical to feek for any other origin of the 

 «' NN'orid, or to j^etend, that it might ariie out cf a chaos, by tiie 

 " mere laws of Nature ; though, being once formed, it may continue 

 " by thole laws, for many ages. For, while Comets move in very 

 " eccentrick orbs, in all manner of pofiticns, blind Fate could never 

 *' make all the Planets move one and the fame way, in crbs ccnccn- 

 " trick, fonie inconfideruble irregularities excepted, which may ha\e 

 " arifen from tlie mutual ac^lions of Comets ai;:d Planets upcn ci e 

 " another, and which will be apt to increafe, till this Syftem wants 

 " a reformation. Such a wonderful uniformity in the Planetary 

 " Syilem, muft be allowed the cfiec^l: of choice. And fo mufl the 

 '• uniformity in th.e bodies of animals they having gcnenilh% a right 

 " and a left fide, Ihaped ahke, and, on either Tide of their bodies, two 

 " legs behind, and either two arms, or two legs, or two wings before 

 " upon their Ihoulders ; and, between their thouldcrs, a neck run- 

 " ning down into a back bone, and a head upon it; and, in the head, 

 " two ears, two eyes, a nofe, a mouth and a tongue, alike fituated. 

 " AHb, the firft contrivance of thofe very artificial parts of animals, 

 " the e\es, ears, brain, mufcles, heart, lurgs, midriff, glands, lar\nx, 

 " hands, wings, fwimming bladders, natural fpecSlacles, and ctler 

 " organs of fenfe and motion, and tlie inftin6> of brutes and infcdts. 



