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appear to differ, or think they differ, they frequently 

 really agree. 



II. The ALMIGHTY CREATOR, when he clothed the 

 world that he had made with plants, and peopled it with 

 animals, besides the manifestation of his own glory, 

 appears to have had two most important purposes in 

 view; the one to provide a supply for the mutual wants 

 of the various living objects he had created, for the 

 continuance of the species, and for the maintenance of 

 a due proportion, as to numbers, of each kind, so that 

 all might subserve to the good of the whole ; and the 

 other, that by them he might instruct his creature man 

 in such civil, physical, moral and spiritual truths,, as were 

 calculated to fit him for his station in the visible world, 

 and gradually prepare him to become an inhabitant of 

 that invisible one for which he was destined. The first 

 of these purposes was best promoted by creating things 

 " according to their kind," with sexes monoecious or 

 dioecious ; that groups of beings related to each other, 

 and agreeing in their general structure, might discharge 

 a common* function. This we see to be the case gene- 

 rally in nature; for where there is an affinity in the struc- 

 ture, there is usually an affinity in the function. The 

 last, or the instruction of man in his primeval state of 

 integrity and purity, was best secured by placing before 

 him for his scrutiny a book of emblems or symbols, in 

 which one thing either by its form or qualities, or both, 

 might represent another. If he was informed by his 

 Creator that the works of creation constituted such a 

 book, by the right interpretation of which he might ar- 

 rive at spiritual verities as well as natural knowledge, 



