NATURAL THEOLOGY. 95 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



OF THE GOODNESS OF THE DEITY. 



The proof of the divine goodness rests upon two 

 propositions : each, as we contend, capable of be- 

 ing made out by observations drawn from the ap- 

 pearances of nature. 



The first is, " that in a vast plurality of instances 

 in which contrivance is perceived, the design of 

 the contrivance is beneficial." 



The second, "that the Deity has superadded 

 pleasure to animal sensations, beyond what was 

 necessary for any other purpose, or when the pur- 

 pose, so far as it was necessary, might have been 

 effected by the operation of pain." 



First, " in a vast plurality of instances in which 

 contrivance is perceived, the design of the contri- 

 vance is heneficialJ^ 



No productions of nature display contrivance 

 so manifestly as the parts of animals ; and the parts 

 of animals have all of them, I believe, a real, and, 

 with very few exceptions, all of them a known and 

 intelligible subserviency to the use of the animal. 

 Now, when the multitude of animals is considered, 

 the number of parts in each, their figure and fit- 

 ness, the faculties depending upon them, the vari- 



