77 



that it is to be imagined that we can re- 

 move completely, all the causes which de- 

 stroy fruit ; and if we could, it is more than 

 probable it would cost us more labour to 

 destroy the superabundant produce, than to 

 moderate the effects of the destroying 

 causes. Besides, it does not appear, though 

 we could remove all these causes complete- 

 ly, either proper or necessary so to do. 

 For, as every part of the creation, from the 

 highest planet to the lowest invisible in- 

 sect, vegetable and atom, seems dependent 

 on another, it cannot be thought absurd to 

 suppose that nature provides for loss in 

 every individual part to support another. 

 If it were otherwise, that beautiful harmony 

 and connection between the parts which 

 now exists, would be lost. But here we 

 must stop, because we can never trace the 

 chain of cause and effect to the extremity, 



