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hundred, and twenty-five, and a hundred 

 and fifty vibrations, in the same given time. 



What I have just said, tends to evince 

 the great care which nature has taken to 

 secure to us the free exercise of an organ, 

 the advantages of which are so expensive. 



But the great and benevolent Creator of 

 the universe has not restricted his bounty to 

 the mere relations of necessity, he has also 

 established, as I have before pointed oat to 

 you, between sounds and the organ of hear- 

 ing, the relations of utility and of pleasure 

 or satisfaction ; which justly entitles him to 

 our warmest gratitude and praise. 



It is true, we are disagreeably affected by 

 Joud or sudden noises: but this susceptibi- 

 lity in the auricular organs, which continues 



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even during sleep, is benevolently intcndc4 

 to warn us of approaching danger. 



Had the ear been so organised as to have, 

 remained insensible to loud and sudden 

 Jioises, or, on the contrar}', l^en endued 

 with a greater susceptibility to slight sounds 



than 



