ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE 

 PHYSIOLOGY. 



INTRODUCTION. 



CHAPTER I. 



Final Causes. 



To investigate the relations which connect Man 

 with his Creator is the noblest exercise of human 

 reason. The Being who bestowed on him this 

 faculty cannot but have intended that he should 

 so exercise it, and that he should acquire, 

 through its means, some insight, however li- 

 mited, into the order and arrangements of 

 creation ; some knowledge, however imperfect, 

 of the divine attributes ; and a distinct, though 

 faint, perception of the transcendent glory with 

 which those attributes are encompassed. To 

 Man have been revealed the POWER, the WISDOM, 

 and the GOODNESS of GOD, through the medium 



VOL. I. B 



