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the fingers, the rapid movements of the organs of speech, 

 or the more exquisite adjustments of the eye, or of the in- 

 ternal ear. Amidst the endless combinations of machinery 

 exhibited in different parts of the animal kingdom, althou<rh 

 the mode of application be diversified in ten thousand ways, 

 the original power is still of the same kind, and is regulated 

 by the same physical laws; and similar instruments are em- 

 ployed in effecting this infinite variety of purposes, by the 

 all-wise and omnipotent Architect of animated creation. 



