MEMOIRSOF 



our day, of true and perfect Chriftianity, 

 againft the gloomy mifreprefentations of 

 the Calvinifts, has not lefs truely than 

 ingeniouily obferved, that " Dr. Darwin's 

 " underftanding had fome of the properties 

 " of the rnicrofcope ; that he looked with 

 " fingularly curious and prying eyes, into 

 " the economy of plants and the habits 

 " of animals, and laid open the labyrinth 

 " of nature in fome of her moft elabo- 

 " rate proceffes and moil fubtle combina- 

 " tions ; that he was acquainted with 

 " more links in the chain of fecond caufcs 

 " than had probably been known to any 

 " individual, who went before him ; but 

 " that he dwelt fo much, and fo exclusively 

 " on fecond caufes, that he too generally 

 " feems to have forgotten that there is a 

 firft." 



Certainly Dr. Darwin's diftinguifhed 

 power of difclofing the arcana of nature, 

 enabled him to explore, and detect, the 



fallacy 



