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studies respectively of both those persons. Not because 
those final causes are not true, and worthy to be inquired, 
being kept within their own province; but because their 
excursions into the limits of physical causes hath bred a 
vastness and solitude in that tract. For otherwise, keep- 
ing their precincts and borders, men are extremely de-_ 
ceived if they think there is an enmity or repugnancy at 
all between them. For the cause rendered, that s/he hairs 
about the eye-lids are for the safeguard of the sight, doth 
not impugn the cause rendered, that prloszty is incident to 
orifices of moisture ; muscost fontes, &c. Nor the cause 
rendered, that the firmness of hides ts for the armour of the — 
body against extremities of heat or cold, doth not impugn 
the cause rendered, that contraction of pores is incident to 
the outwardest parts, in regard of their adjacence to foreign 
or unlike bodies: and so of the rest: both causes being 
true and compatible, the one declaring an intention, the 
other a consequence only. Neither doth this call in ques- 
tion, or derogate from divine providence, but highly con- 
firm and exalt it. For as in civil actions he is the greater 
and deeper politique, that can make other men the instru- 
ments of his will and ends, and yet never acquaint them 
with his purpose, so as they shall do it and yet not know 
what they do, than he that imparteth his meaning to those 
he employeth ; so is the wisdom of God more admirable, 
when nature intendeth one thing, and providence draweth 
forth another, than if he had communicated to particular 
creatures and motions the characters and impressions of 
his providence. And thus much for metaphysic: the 
latter part whereof I allow as extant, but wish it confined 
to his proper place. 
VIII. 1. Nevertheless there remaineth yet another 
part of natural philosophy, which is commonly made a 
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