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for it is of a prodigious elevation. Take an accef- 

 fible objeâ: of comparifon, that of your own height, 

 and the length of your fliadow, and you will find 

 the felf-fame relation between thefe, as between 

 the fliadow of the tower and it's elevation, which 

 you deemed to be inaccefllble. 



Thus the knowledge of any one truth is to be ac- 

 quired only by confidering it under different rela- 

 tions. This is the reafon why God alone is really 

 intelligent, becaufe He alone knows all the rela- 

 tions which exift among all beings; and farther, 

 why God alone is the mod univerfally known ot all 

 beings, becaufe the relations which He has efta- 

 bliflied among things, manifeft Him in all his 

 Works. 



All truths run into one another, like the links of 

 à chain. We acquire the knowledge of them only 

 by comparing them to each other. Had our Aca- 

 demicians made the proper ufe of this principle, 

 they muft have difcovered that the flattening of 

 the Poles was an error. They had only to apply 

 the confequences of this do6lrine to the diflribu- 

 t ion of the Seas. If the Poles are flattened, their 

 radii being the fliorteft of the Globe, all the Seas 

 muft prefs thitherward, as being the moft deprefled 

 place of the Earth : on the other hand, if the 

 Equator were th€ moft elevated, all the Seas muft 



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