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Things ;" his " Free Inquiry into the Vulgar 

 Notion of Nature ;" his " Christian Virtuoso ;" 

 and his Essay entitled " The High Veneration 

 Man's Intellect owes to God." It would be 

 superfluous to quote at any length from these 

 works. We may observe, however, that he 

 notices that general fact which we are at present 

 employed in exemplifying, that " in almost all 

 ages and countries the generality of philosophers 

 and contemplative men were persuaded of the 

 existence of a Deity from the consideration of the 

 phenomena of the universe ; whose fabric and 

 conduct they rationally concluded could not justly 

 be ascribed either to chance or to any other cause 

 than a Divine Being." And in speaking of the 

 religious uses of science, he says: "Though I 

 am willing to grant that some impressions of 

 God's wisdom are so conspicuous that even a 

 superficial philosopher may thence infer that the 

 author of such works must be a wise agent ; yet 

 how wise an agent he has in these works ex- 

 pressed himself to be, none but an experimental 

 philosopher can well discern. And 'tis not by 

 a slight survey, but by a diligent and skilful 

 scrutiny, of the works of God, that a man must 

 be, by a rational and affective conviction, engaged 

 to acknowledge that the author of nature * is 

 wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.' ' 

 After the mechanical properties of fluids, the 

 laws of the operation of the chemical and physi- 



