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We were created for the glory of the Cfea^ 

 tor, which cannot be brought about unlefs we 

 know hun, either by revelation, or the works 

 of the creation. As to the latter i fufpeft, that 

 many come into the world, and remain here 

 even to old age, who never faw the creation, 

 but from afar-, juft like the brute beads, 

 which cannot fail of feeing the verdure, and 

 various colors, that cloath the earth, but go 

 not one ilep farther. This feems to me as if 

 any one, who fliould be carried into a botanic 

 garden to fee the immenfe variety of plants 

 brought together from all parts with incredible 

 trouble, care and expence, Ihould only ob- 

 ferve that the leaves were green, and the flow- 

 ers of various colors, juft as they are every 

 where elfe. Could fuch an one be truly, and 

 juftly faid to have feen the garden ? Or if any 

 one fnould go into a mufeum, filled with na- 

 tural objc6i:3 of the rarcft kind preferved in 

 fpirit of wine, and fhould only attend to the 

 clearnefs of tlie liquor, and, though he faw a 

 body hanging in it, fliould not inquire what 

 body it was ; wo\]ld not he, who took the 

 trouble of fhewing thefe fights to fo curious a 



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