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ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE 



PHYSIOLOGY. 



INTRODIJCTIOIV. 



CHAPTER I. 



FINAL CAUSES. 



To investigate the relations which connect Man with his 

 Creator is the noblest exercise of human reason. The Be- 

 ing who bestowed on him this faculty cannot but have in- 

 tended that he should so exercise it, and that he should ac- 

 quire, through its means, some insight, however limited, 

 into the order and arrangements of creation; some know- 

 ledge, however imperfect, of the divine attributes; and a 

 distinct, though faint, perception of the transcendent glory 

 with which those attributes are encompassed. To Man 

 have been revealed the power, the w^isdom, and the good- 

 ness of God, through the medium of the Book of Nature, 

 in the varied pages of which they are inscribed in indelible 

 characters. On Man has been conferred the high privilege 

 of interpreting these characters, and of deriving from their 

 contemplation those ideas of grandeur and sublimity, and 

 those emotions of admiration and of gratitude, which ele- 

 vate and refine the soul, and transport it into regions of a 

 purer and more exalted being. 



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