166 HORNED TOAD. 



was good, that is conformable to his will, which 

 abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and 

 beauty, there is no deformity but in monstrosity ; 

 wherein, notwithstanding, there is a kind of beau- 

 ty ; Nature so ingeniously contriving the irregu- 

 lar parts, as they become sometimes more remark- 

 able than the principal fabrick. To speak yet 

 more narrowly, there never was any thing ugly 

 or mis-shapen but the chaos : wherein notwith- 

 withstanding, to speak strictly, there was no de- 

 formity, because no form ; nor was it yet impreg- 

 nate by the voice of God. Now Nature is not at 

 variance with Art, nor Art with Nature; they being 

 both the servants of his Providence. Art is the 

 perfection of Nature ; were the world now as it 

 was on the sixth day, there were yet a Chaos. 

 Nature hath made one World, and Art another. 

 In brief, all beings are artificial, for Nature is the 

 Art of God."- Rel. Med. p. 9. 



The learned and acute Sir Kenelm Digby, in 

 his observations on the above passage, replies, 

 " That logick which he quarreleth at, for calling 

 a Toad or Serpent ugly, will in the end agree with 

 his : for nobody ever took them to be so in re- 

 spect to the Universe (in which regard he defend- 

 eth their regularity and symmetry), but only as 

 they have relation to us." 



