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nels, through the whole system ; and thus keep 

 up a kind of systole and diastole, which diffuse 

 every where a healthy temperament, and are 

 universally beneficial. It is, moreover, calcu- 

 lated to generate those kindly feelings which 

 ought to reciprocate between beings inhabiting 

 the same globe, and sprung from the same origi- 

 nal father. And the cultivation of these feelings 

 of mutual good will was, no doubt, the principal 

 object of the Deity in the distribution of various 

 gifts to various countries, endowing some with 

 one peculiar production and some with another : 

 so that one might not say to another, " / have no 

 need of you" 



Herein is the Divine wisdom and goodness 

 most conspicuous. Had chance, or nature, as 

 some love to speak, directed the distribution of 

 animals, and they had been abandoned to them- 

 selves and to the circumstances in which they 

 found themselves in their original station, without 

 any superintending power to guide them, they 

 would not so invariably have fixed themselves in 

 the climates and regions for which they were evi- 

 dently intended. Their migrations, under their 

 own sole guidance, would have depended, for 

 their direction, upon the season of the year, at 

 which the desire seized them to change their 

 quarters : in the height of summer, the tropical 

 animals might have taken a direction further 

 removed from the tropics ; and, in winter, those 



