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was designed for an arrow, and an arrow for a bow ; 

 and the design is more evident for their being 

 separate implements. 



Nor do the works of the Deity want the clear- 

 est species of relation. The sexes are manifestly 

 made for each other. They form the grand rela- 

 tion of animated nature, universal, organic, me- 

 chanical, subsisting, hke the clearest relations of 

 art, in different individuals, unequivocal, inexpli- 

 cable without design. 



So much so, that, w^ere every other proof of con- 

 trivance in nature dubious or obscure this alone 

 would be sufficient. The example is complete. 

 Nothing is wanting to the argument. I see no 

 way whatever of getting over it. 



V. The teats of animals which give suck, bear 

 a relation to the mouth of the suckling progeny, 

 particularly to the lips and tongue. Here also, 

 as before, is a correspondency of parts, which parts 

 subsist in different individuals. 



These are general relations, or the relations of 

 parts which are found either in all animals or in 

 large classes and descriptions of animals. Parti- 

 cular relations, or the relations which subsist be- 

 tween the particular configuration of one or more 

 parts of certain species of animals, and the parti- 

 cular configuration of one or more other parts of 

 the same animal (which is the sort of relation 

 that is, perhaps, most striking) are such as the 

 foiiowinsf : 



