90 ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



all caufes, except primary ones ; which are 

 cettainly removed far beyond the reach of 

 human inquiry.. The proper office, and 

 higheft boaft of true philofophy, is, to 

 bring us ftill nearer to the Deity, by lead- 

 ing us upwards, ftep by ftep, in the migh- 

 ty y^^/^ of Nature. 



Art, 



