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struction imthout this property, or which is the same 

 thing, before this property had been noticed, prov- 

 ed intention and art to have been employed about 

 it, still more strong would the proof appear, when 

 he came to the knowledge of this further property, 

 the crown and perfection of all the rest. 



II. He would reflect, that though the watch be- 

 fore him were, m soinc sense,i\\Q maker of the watch 

 which was fabricated in the course of its move- 

 ments, yet it was in a very different sense from 

 that in which a carpenter, for instance, is the maker 

 of a chair — the author of its contrivance, the cause 

 of the relation of its parts to their use. With re- 

 spect to these, the first watch was no cause at all 

 to the second ; in no such sense as this was it the 

 author of the constitution and order, either of the 

 parts which the new watch contained, or of the 

 parts by the aid and instrumentality of which it 

 was produced. We might possibly say, but with 

 great latitude of expression, that a stream of water 

 ground corn ; but no latitude of expression would 

 allow us to say, no stretch of conjecture could lead 

 us to think, that the stream of water built the mill, 

 though it were too ancient for us to know who the 

 builder was. What the stream of water does in 

 the affair is neither more nor less than this ; by the 

 application of an unintelligent impulse to a mechan- 

 ism previously arranged, arranged independently 

 of it, and arranged by intelligence, an effect is pro- 

 duced, viz., the corn is ground. But the effect re- 

 sults from the arrangement. The force of the 



