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where*; and I will only add here, that a man, who fees and obferves 

 the different animals of this earth, fuch as mariy horfe^ and ox, &c. 

 cannot believe that the diftindion of thefe different fpeciefes is mere- 

 ly a work of our imagination, without any foundation in nature. 

 And when he confiders the conneiSlion and refemblance that there 

 is betwixt the three animals I have mentioned and other animals 

 upon this earth, he muft be convinced that there is a genus, or more 

 general idea, which comprehends not only thefe animals, but all the 

 animals that we know. This is that genus which I call animal, 

 and which, therefore, is no more a fidlion or creation of our minds 

 than the feveral fpeciefes of animals I have mentioned. And, in- 

 deed, to deny that there is an order and arrangement of every thing 

 in this univerfe, and particularly of animals, according to their ge- 

 nufes and fpeciefes, is to deny that there is any order or any fyf- 

 tem of things in the univerfe. That there is fuch an order in ani- 

 mals, I think, is evident not only to our reafon but to our fenfes ; 

 and befides it is revealed to us in the firft chapter of Genefis, where 

 we are told that God created all animals, of the earth, the water, 

 and the air, after their kinds^ that is, arranged them according to 

 their feveral genufes and fpeciefes. 



* Til the preceding chapter. 



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