120 EXCURSIONS ROUND LONDON. 



seen that in order to form domestic society, 

 the wise author of Nature has created us 

 ignorant and feeble, that our parents might 

 not desert us; while, at the same time, the 

 infant countenance is decked with the most 

 bewitching smiles, and artless graces, in 

 order to recompence the cares and generous 

 attachment of parents to their offspring. 

 The benevolence of the Deity extends still 

 farther. The wants and dangers to which 

 small associations of men are liable, have 

 compelled families to unite their efforts, and 

 by this means procured to man the empire 

 of the universe. 



It is impossible to consider the progress 

 of industry through a succession of ages, or 

 to study the phenomena of mind, and the 

 monuments w r ith which the ingenuity of 

 man has covered the earth, without being 

 penetrated with surprise and admiration. 



The mechanism of life is truly astonishing; 

 the structure of the human body, the actions 

 of the springs by which its movements are 



regulated 



