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latter manifests a more exquisite skill,) between the 

 making of another watch with his own hands, by 

 the mediation of tiles, lathes, chisels, &c., and the 

 disposing, fixing, and inserting of these instru- 

 ments, or of others equivalent to them, in the body 

 of the watch already made in such a manner, as 

 to form a new watch in the course of the move- 

 ments which he had given to the old one. It is 

 only working by one set of tools instead of an- 

 other. 



The conclusion which the first examination of 

 the watch, of its w^orks, construction, and move- 

 ment, suggested, was, that it must have had, for 

 cause and author of that construction, an artificer 

 who understood its mechanism, and designed its 

 use. This conclusion is invincible. A second ex- 

 amination presents us with a new discovery. The 

 watch is found, in the course of its movement, to 

 produce another watch, similar to itself; and not 

 only so, but we perceive in it a system, or organi- 

 zation, separately calculated for that purpose. 

 What effect would this discovery have, or ought 

 it to have, upon our former inference? What, as 

 hath already been said, but to increase, beyond 

 measure, our admiration of the skill which had 

 been employed in the formation of such a ma- 

 chine ? Or shall it, instead of this, all at once 

 turn us round to an opposite conclusion, viz., that 

 no art or skill whatever has been concerned in the 

 business, although all other evidences of art and 

 skill remain as they were, and this last and su> 



