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CHAP. ir. 



Ohjeflioii to the Impojfibility of our Comprehending the Sy/icm of the 

 Univerfe, anfwered. — We have two Faculties^ by the frft of which 

 IV e perceive Individuals; and by the fecond Generals or Syftems. — 

 Our Progrcfs from Particular to General Ideas. — Difcrenee be- 

 ttvixt our Ideas and our Perceptions of Senk.—The Progrefs of 

 the Mind of Man in this Earth wonderful — Not fuficiently attend- 

 ed to : — From a Brute of the better kind, perceiving only Obje&s of 

 Senfc, to an Intellectual Being, comprehending the Syftcm of the 

 Univeife, couffting of Geuufcs, Speciefes, and Individuals, and all 

 their Connexions and Dependencies. — Science and 'Truth, found- 

 ed on the Perception of the one /;/ the many. — The Wonderful Con- 

 tie^ion of all Things in the Univerfe, the foundation of all our 

 knozvkdge, even of our knowledge of the Supreme Being, the frft 

 perfon of the Trinity. — The Various Changes of Man not to end 

 with this Life. — The Goodnefs of God Manifefted in the Faculties 

 he has bejlowed upon us. 



T may be objeded to this Syftem which I have given of the Uni- 

 verfe, that, though it may be a true fyftem, it is impoflible that 

 an animal of fo limited a capacity as man can comprehend it ; and 

 that, therefore, we fliould not pretend to make a fyftem of what is 

 lb much above our capacity. And indeed that he ihould compre- 

 hend every particular of fuch a fyftem is impoffible : But he may 

 form fome general idea of the whole of it, and difcover the relations 



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