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CHAPTER III. 



ABOUT the year 1771, commenced that 

 great work, the Zoonomia, firft publiflied 

 in 1794; the gathered wifdom of three- 

 and-twenty years. Ingenious, beyond all 

 precedent, in its conjectures, and embrac- 

 ing, with giant-grafp, almoft every branch 

 of philofophic fcience ; difcovering their 

 bearings upon each other, and thofc fubtle, 

 and, till then, concealed links by which 

 they are united ; and with their feparate, 

 conjunctive and collective influence upon 

 human organization ; their fometimes pro- 

 bable, and at others demonstrative, power, 

 under judicious application, of reftoring that 

 regularity to the mechanifm of animal life, 

 G 3 which 



