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adapted continually to inculcate upon the mind 

 the main purposes of our existence, as living and 

 rational creatures ; and to lead us to observe, 

 while investigating the phenomena of each func- 

 tion, the admirable adaptation of the means to 

 the object, not only individual, but general, for 

 which this function was appointed, and to which, 

 in common with others, it conduces, as subser- 

 vient, directly or indirectly, to the great end of 

 our being. 



