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that the end is to make every thing as perfedl of its kind as it can 

 be, and as fit to produce the end for which it is intended, and to 

 preferve it in that ftate. 



And this naturally leads to another, queftion, What makes the pcr- 

 fedlion of the beings of the univcrfe? This queftion can only be 

 folved by confidering the nature of the feveral beings in the univerfe, 

 which, as I have faid, muft: be all perfeft of their kind, in order to 

 make this fyftem of the univerfe perfeft. 



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