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CHAPTER I. 



STATE OF THE ARGUMENT. 

 Tlie stone and the watch, page 9 ; eight cases, 10-13. 



CHAPTER II. 



STATE OF THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED. 14 



CHAPTER III. 



APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT. 

 Eye and telescope, 20 ; light— distance, 24 ; eyes of birds, 27 ; eyes of fishes, 28; 

 minuteness of picture, 29 ; socket — eyebrow — eyelid — tears. 30 ; nictitating 

 membrane — muscle, 31 ; expedients, 33 ; why means used, 33 ; ear, 35. 



CHAPTER IV. 



OF THE SUCCESSION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. 

 No account hereby of contrivance, 41; plants, 41; oviparous animals, 42; 

 viviparous — rational animals, 43 ; instance from the gardener, 44. 



CHAPTER V. 



APPLICATION OF THE ARGUMENT CONTINUED. 

 Repetition from Chap. I., 45 ; imperfection, 45 ; superfluous parts, 46 ; athe- 

 istic argument, 47 ; remains of possible forms, 49 ; use arising out of the 

 parts, 51 ; a principle of order, 54 ; of our ignorance, 55, 



CHAPTER VI. 



THE ARGUMENT CUMULATIVE. 57 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE MECHANICAL AND IMMECHANICAL PARTS AND 

 FUNCTIONS OF ANIMALS AND VEGETABLES, 

 imperfection of knowledge no proof of want of contrivance, 59 ; on chemistry, 

 62 ; secretion, 63. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



BIECHANICAL ARRANGEMENT IN THE HUMAN FRAME. 

 Of bones. 68; neck, 68; forearm, 69 ; spine, 71; chest, 76; kneepan, 77; 

 shoulder-blade, 78; joints, 79; ball-and-socket, 80; ginglymus, 81; knee, 

 81 ; ankle, 82 ; shoulder, 82 ; passage of bloodvessels, 83 ; gristle, 84 ; 

 movable cartilages, 85 ; mucilage, 85 ; how well the joints wear, 86 ; bonea 

 *f tJie skull, 86. 



CHAPTER IX. 



OF THE MUSCLES. 

 Suitableness to the joints, 87; antagonist muscles, 88; not obstructing one 

 another, 90; action wanted where their situation would be inconveaient, 



