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NATURAL THEOLOGY. 



exhales in return the vital principle which the animal 



wants. 



T Such used to be the theory. But late expe- 

 riments have given rise to some different views upon 



^Agitation teith voter is one of the restoring 

 eauses which the wisdom of the Creator has proved 

 to purify the air. « The foulest an- shaken m a hot 

 I with water for a sufficient length of time, 

 a "eat degree of its purity. Here we see the salu- 

 ZesJs of storm and tempests. The yesty waves, 

 3* confound the heaven and the sea, are domg 

 the very thing which is done m the bott e. Nothing 

 can be of greater importance to the living c« 

 than the salubrity of the atmosphere. It ought to 

 reconcile us therefore to these agitations of the ele 

 » nts, of which we are apt to deplore the conse- 

 quences, to know, that they tend powerfully to restore 

 to the air that purity which many causes are contmu- 



ally impairing. , 



B. Hence I suppose that delightful sweetness and 

 freshness of the air after a shower. 



T. What are some other of the principal marks 

 of design we discover in the elements ? _ 



A Without air, neither vegetable nor anunal life 

 could be supported. Water could not be carried up 

 from the earth, nor supported in the form of cloud 

 nor when descending, could be distributed m dew 

 and rain drops. Without the air to reflect the rays 

 of light, the instant we turned our back upon the sun, 

 we should he immersed in total darkness. 



