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down and feathers. Strange and stupendous texture 

 of the bodies of these creatures, that should convert 

 the common green herbage of the field into their dif- 

 ferent natures, and their more different clothing ; but 

 this leads me to another remark. 



2. What exceeding great diversify is found in the 

 several parts, limbs, and coverings, even of the same 

 creature? An animated body is made up of flesh 

 and blood, bones and membranes, long hollow tubes, 

 with a variety of liquors contained in them, together 

 with many strings and tendons, and a thousand other 

 things which escape the naked sight, and for which 

 anatomy has hardly found a name, yet the very same 

 food is by the wondrous skill and appointment of 

 the God of nature formed into all these amazing 

 differences. Let us take an ox to pieces, and survey 

 the wondrous composition. Besides the flesh of this 

 huge living structure, and the bones on which it is 

 built, what variety of tender coats and humours be* 

 long to that admirable organ the eye? How solid 

 and hard are - the teeth which grind the food ; how 

 firm the general ligaments that tie the joints of that 

 creature together ?~ What horny hoofs are his sup. 

 port, and with what different sort of horny weapons 

 has nature furnished his forehead ? Yet they arc all 

 framed of the same grassy materials, the calf grazes 

 upon the verdant pasture, and all its limbs and powers 

 grow up out of that food to the sizo and firmness of 

 an ox. Can it be supposed, that all these corpuscles 

 of which the several inward and outward parts of 

 the brute are composed, are actually found in their 

 different and proper forms in the vegetable food ? 

 Does every spire of grass actually contain the spe- 

 cific parts of the horn and the hoof, the teeth and 

 the tendons, the glands and membranes, the humours 

 and coats of the eye, the liquids and solids with all 

 their innumerable varieties in their proper distinct 

 forms ? This is a most unreasonable supposition. 

 iNo, it is the wisdom of the God of nature that dis- 

 tributes this uniform fuod iu the several parts ot the 



