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of Animal Subjlances. 
flefh, fkin, and bones, may be regenerated, but 
membranes, ligaments, cartilages, glands, blood 
veflels, and even nerves; and this for the wifeft 
purpofes, that every part may be repaired in its 
own kind, and in fome manner reftored by the 
coagulable lymph, which is poured out, and 
becomes vafcular, and forms organized parts. 
By this wife provifion of nature, the many 
accidents to which we are continually expofed, 
are often more compleatly repaired, than arc 
could be able to accomplish- 
In fome animals, we fee this regenerating 
and living principle, carried ftill to a much 
greater length, where not only whole limbs, 
but even the more noble organs are reproduced. 
The ftudy of nature is not only engaging and 
pleafant to a high degree, but it infpires us with 
fuch a refpedl and admiration of the Almighty 
Being, that it is impofTible either for a Naturalift 
or an Anatomift to be an Atheift. 
They have conftantly before their eyes fo 
many wonderful living machines, differently 
wrought, yet fo compleatly fafhioned, and all 
tending to one great point, the preservation 
of themfelves and their fpecies ; in which, there 
are fo many orders of veffels, one depending 
upon another, yet compfeat in themfelves ; 
capable of repairing injuries they may fuftain, 
and even of reftoring loft fubftances j that 
men, who daily fee fuch obje&s, muft be con- 
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