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skeleton may be restored, from a careful ex- 

 amination, we may say perusal, of its frag- 

 ments, is a proof of tlie law of harmony. The 

 law of harmony supposes design, skill, power, 

 and hence are we directly led from the creature 

 to the Creator. Many of our readers have 

 seen, no doubt, a humorous picture by 

 Hogarth, in which the rules of perspective 

 are purposely violated, an incongruous assem- 

 blage of objects being the result. Such a 

 chance-medley affair would be the structure of 

 every animal, were the laws of harmony vio- 

 lated, or not observed ; and in vain from any 

 portion, might the most accomplished anatomist 

 endeavour to reconstruct its fabric of a given 

 species, for he would work in darkness, with- 

 out rule, or any possible guide ; but, as it is, 

 one bone proclaims what another must have 

 been, and thus may the anatomist add part to 

 part, till, the minor details alone excepted, the 

 fabric is rebuilt. 



