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‘our view, ftrike the mind in the moft forci- 
ble manner. We are eye witnefles of pro- 
vidence, but not of creation. The contem- 
plation of every part of nature, furnifhes us 
with irrefiftible proofs of intelligence, coun- 
feland defign, ftill employed in actuating, 
moving, conducting and governing the uni- 
verfe. Nihil eff enim, quod ratione, ‘et nume- 
ro moveri pofit jfine confilio, in quo nibil eff te- 
merarium, nibil varium, nibil fortuitum, Or- 
do autem fiderum et confiantia, neque naturam 
fgnificat ; eff enim plena rationis: neque for- 
‘tunam, quae amica varietati conflantiam re- 
fpuit. Que qui videat, non impié folum, ve- 
rum etiam indoété faciat, fi Deos effe neget. 
Nee fane multum intereft, utrum id neget, an 
eos omni eprocuratione, atque actione privet : 
mibi enim, qui nibil agit, effe omnino non vide- 
-tur. Cr1c. de Nat. Deor. lib. II. cap. 16. 
We obferve indeed, in various inftances, 
a fubordination of natural caufes and effects, 
and a dependence of one thing upon another. 
To inveftigate thefe, is the proper province of 
~ natural philofophy. The philofopher’s bufinefs 
‘is, to learn the conftitution of things as they 
really are ; and to fearch out. the laws and 
order 
