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CHAPTER XXVII. 



CONCLUSION. 



In all cases, wherein the mind feels itself in 

 danger of being confounded by variety, it is sure 

 to rest upon a few strong points, or perhaps upon 

 a single instance. Amongst a multitude of proofs, 

 it is owe that does the business. If we observe in 

 any argument, that hardly two minds fix upon 

 the same instance, the diversity of choice shows 

 the strength of the argument, because it shows 

 the number and competition of the examples. 

 There is no subject in which the tendency to 

 dwell upon select or single topics is so usual, 

 because there is no subject, of which, in its full 

 extent, the latitude is so great, as that of natural 

 history applied to the proof of an intelligent 

 Creator. For my part, I take my stand in human 

 anatomy; and the examples of mechanism I 

 should be apt to draw out from the copious cata- 

 logue which it supplies, are the pivot upon which 

 the head turns, the ligaments within the socket 

 of the hip-joint, the pulley or trochlear muscles of 

 the eye, the epiglottis, the bandages which tie 

 down the tendons of the wrist and instep, the sht 

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