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for him. The sun and moon were made 

 for him, and the stars are only as so many 

 brass nails to adorn the roof of his carriage. 

 Further, if we are not to venture to take off 

 the bark because nature has given it, we 

 ought not to root out weeds, because nature 

 has given them also ; and why destroy the 

 vermin ? They too are the gift of nature. If 

 we were to follow out this mode of reason- 

 ing, where would it lead us ? Nature could 

 have produced crops without weeds, and 

 fruit without trees. She could have pro- 

 duced the fruits of the earth without tilling 

 and sowing : Why not loaves and rolls 

 ready made, and then there would have 

 been no occasion for sowers, reapers, mill- 

 ers, or bakers ? Nay, nature could as easily 

 have made man to live without food : but 

 in that state what he would have been we can 

 have no conception. I can give no other 



