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parts, and the multitude of qualifications they require 

 to fit them for their several uses. Galen observes, 

 u that there are in a human body, above six hundred 

 muscles. And there are at least ten several inten- 

 tions in each, and as many qualifications needful : so 

 tha( about the muscles alone, no Itss than 6000 ends 

 are to be attended to. The bones are reckoned to be 

 284. The distinct intentions in each of these are above 

 forty : in all about a hundred thousand. And thus 

 It is 3 in proportion, with all the other parts : the 

 skin, ligaments, veins, arteries, nerves, glands, hu- 

 mours : but more especially with the members of the 

 body, which as to the multitude of intentions and qua. 

 lifications, far exceed the similar parts. And should 

 one of these qualifications fail, great inconvenience 

 would ensue." 



It is displayed, fifthly, in the stature of man, so 

 admirably well adapted to the circumstances of his 

 existence. Had man been only a foot or two high, 

 he had been quite disproportioned to every thing 

 round about him. Had he been much larger he could 

 not well have been supplied with food, all the edible 

 animals would not have sufficed. And had they too 

 been proportionably larger, the surface of the earth 

 would not have sufficed to feed them. 



It is however a common opinion, and has been so 

 ever since old Homer's time, that the people in the 

 early ages of the world, were much larger than us. 

 And it is true, we read of some meri of a surprising 

 stature. But they were even then esteemed giants* 

 The ordinary stature of men, is probably just the 

 same now, as it was at the beginning. This may be 

 gathered from the monuments still remaining, parti- 

 cularly the pyramids of Egypt The cavities for bodies 

 now visible herein, are little larger than our ordinary 

 coffins : likewise from several embalmed bodies taken 

 out of them it appears, that men are of the same 

 stature now, that they were when those pyramids 

 were built, which is at least three thousand years 

 ago. Eighteen hundred years ago the emperor 



