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and the materials of the human body being what 

 they are, a much greater bulk would have broken 

 down by its own weight. The persons of men 

 who much exceed the ordinary stature betray this 

 tendency. 



VI. Again, (and which includes a vast variety 

 of particulars, and those of the greatest impor- 

 tance,) how close is the suitableness of the earth 

 and sea to their several inhabitants ; and of these 

 inhabitants to the places of their appointed resi- 

 dence ! 



Take the earth as it is ; and consider the cor- 

 respondency of the powers of its inhabitants with 

 the properties and condition of the soil which they 

 tread. Take the inhabitants as they are ; and con- 

 sider the substances which the earth yields for 

 their use. They can scratch its surface, and its 

 surface supplies all which they want. This is the 

 length of their faculties : and such is the constitu- 

 tion of the globe, and their own, that this is suffi- 

 cient for all their occasions. 



When we pass from the earth to the sea, from 

 land to water, we pass through a great change : 

 but an adequate change accompanies us of ani- 

 mal forms and functions, of animal capacities and 

 wants ; so that correspondency remains. The earth 

 in its nature is very different from the sea, and 

 the sea from the earth, but one accords with its 

 inhabitants as exactly as the other. 



YII. The last relation of this kind which I shall 

 mention is that of sleep to night; and it appears 



