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94 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



yond the reach of our examination. By means of 

 it, though we are ignorant whether there may be 

 men in the Planets, we are affured there muft be 

 eyes, becaufe there is light. It is this which has 

 awakened a fenfe of Juftice in the heart of every 

 man, and informs him that there is another order 

 of things after this life is at an end. This Law, in 

 a word, is the moil irrefiftible proof of the exift- 

 nce of GOD ; for amidft fuch a multitude of adap- 

 tations fo ingenious, that our parlions themfelves, 

 reftlefs as they are, never could have deviled any- 

 thing fimilar ; and fo numerous, that every day is 

 prefenting to us fome that have all the merit of 

 novelty, the firft of all, which is the Deity, muft 

 undoubtedly exift, as He is the general confor- 

 mity of all particular conformities. 



It is this, above all, whofe existence we endea- 

 vour, even involuntarily, every where to trace, 

 and to affure ourfelves of it in every poffible man- 

 ner. And this explains to us the reafon why the 

 moft fplendid and comprehenfive collerions in 

 Natural Hiftory, Galleries of the choiceft mafter- 

 pieces in Painting, Gardens filled with the rarelt 

 and moft curious plants, Libraries ftored with the 

 moft valuable and beft written books ; in a word, 

 every thing that prefents to us the moft marvellous 

 relations of Nature, after having raifed us to an 

 extafy of admiration, conclude by fuperinducing 



languor 



