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mals, purfues and catches the fwifteft, nay he is 

 able to reach even thofe, which lye hid in the 

 bottom of the Tea. 



By the help of reafon he increafes the num- 

 ber of vegetables immenfely, and does that by 

 art, which nature, left to herfelf, could fcarcely 

 effedl. By ingenuity he obtains from vege- 

 tables whatever is convenient or neceflary for 

 food, drink, cloathing, medicine, navigation, 

 and a thoufand other purpofes. 



He has found the means of going down into 

 the abyfs of the earth, and almoft fearching 

 its very bowels. With what artifice has he 

 learned to get fragments from the moll rocky 

 mountains, to make the hardeft ftones fluid like 

 water •, to leparate the ufefuU metal from the 

 ufelefs drofs, and to turn the fineft fand to 

 fome ufe ! In fhort when we follow the feries 

 of created things, and confider how provi- 

 dentially one is made for the fake of another, 

 the matter comes to this, that all things are 

 made for the fake of man j and for this end 

 more efpecially, that he by admiring the works 

 of the Creator fhould extoll his glory, and at 

 once enjoy all thofe things, of which he ftands 

 in need, in order to pafs his life conveniently 

 and pleafantly. 



