1 98 Proposal for the EstaWiskment of 



department, should be suspended moveable tablets, enume- 

 rating the several objects, particularising the connecting 

 points of ditTerent classes, and specifying remarkable analor 

 gics and anomalies. 



Such tablets will at once assist the apprehension of the 

 spectator, and facilitate the exhibition. 



WuvtBcya-rx, navroTTTr, , JXxvfoy.pxTo^t. 

 What worthier temple can we raise to his glory than one 

 which, presenting to the senses an epitome of his works, 

 may serve as a pronaon to the temple of his creation, of 

 which the heavens are spread out as the vault*, the height 

 of the sanctuaryt, wherein, sitting on the circlej of the 

 earth, he calleth all thincrs bv their names, and brinsfeth out 

 their hosts by number, and maintainelh them by the great-? 

 ness of his might. 



ARGUMENT 



Introductory to the Collection of Tablets, or Catalogue of 

 the National Museum, 



" It 19 impossible to know any thing of the cause but what you have ante- 

 cedently, not inferred, but discovered, to the full, in the effect." Hums- 



All nature presents us with a series of important hiero- 

 glyphics, a part of which is easy of explanation, a part ap- 

 pears to lie beyond the reach of human faculties. 



The explicable part involves truths which concern us 

 above all others : namely, our relations to all other beings, 

 and to the Author of all modes of being, of all order, physi- 

 cal and moral. 



The relations of the different parts of the forms of living 

 beings to the continued subsistence of individuals subject to 

 thought and voluntary power ; the relations of individuals 

 to each other, and to the continuance of species, subjected 

 to the exertions of thought and voluntary power; and the 



» " Vault." Esdras, xvi. 59. | « Sanctuary." Psal. cii. 19. 



^ "Circle." Isaiah iL22 and 20. 



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