MEMOIR OF BARON HALLER. 0.3 



ture of the yolk are exquisitely beautiful, though 

 destined to endure but for twenty or rather ten 

 days. What superabundance and prodigality of 

 ornament for so momentary an existence! But 

 time, all important to us, since it destroys us, is 

 nothing to God, because he changes not. His 

 creative wisdom alike adorns the grass which en- 

 dures for a day, and the oak which lasts for ages. 

 It would appear that God had thought fit that the 

 world, as one theatre of his wisdom, should have 

 as many parts in order and organization as the 

 nature of things would admit, and that noise and 

 confusion should have the least possible place. 

 Upon the whole, it appears certain, that the beauti- 

 ful structure of animals, however various, is always 

 perfectly adapted to the proper and distinct habits, 

 and functions, and manner of life of each; calcu- 

 lated by rules more perfect than those of human 

 geometry, and most evidently accommodated to 

 foreseen purposes; in the eye, the ear, the hand, 

 and finally, every where, and can be ascribed to 

 no cause less than the infinite wisdom of the Great 

 Creator." 



In 1773, Haller published, in the Memoirs of the 

 Economical Society of Berne, an able treatise on 

 the nature of the " Epizootic," that dreadful disease 

 among horned cattle, which for several years de- 

 stroyed so many hundreds of thousands in so many 

 countries of Europe. He there demonstrated, that 

 though with great care they had overcome its violence 

 and checked its progress on the side of Switzerland, 



