Part L /;/ /^^ C r e a t i o n. 37, 



and why hath it nof fomewhere or other in the 

 Earth made, a Temple, or a Gallery, or a For- 

 tico, or a Houfe, or a City ? which yet it is fo far 

 from doing, and every Man fo far from be- 

 lieving, that {hould any one of us be caft, fup- 

 pofe, upon a defolate I [land, and find there a mag- 

 nificent Palace, artificially contriv'd according to 

 the exadteft Rules of Architedlure, and curi- 

 blifly adorned and furnifli'd, it would never once 

 enter into his Head, that this was done by an 

 Earthquake, or the fortuitous fliuffling together 

 of its component Materials 3 or that it had flood 

 there ever iince the Conftruftion of xht Worlds 

 or firft Coha^fion of Atoms ', but would pre fen t- 

 ly conclude, that there bad been fome intelligent 

 Architev^l there, the Effe6l of whofe i\rt and Skill 

 it was. Or fhould he fi-nd there hut one fingle 

 Sheet of Parchment or Paper, an Epiftle or Ora- 

 tion written, full of profound Senfe, exprefs'd 

 in proper and fignificant Words, illuflrated and 

 adorn'd with elegant Phrafe ; it were beyond 

 the Poflibility of the Wit of Man to perluade 

 him that this was done by the temerarious Dafli- 

 es of an unguided Pen, or by the rude Scattering 

 of Ink upon the Paper, or by the lucky Pro- 

 jidtion of fo many Letters at all Adventures; but 

 he v/ould be convinced by the Evidence of the 

 Thing at firft Sight, that there had been not on- 

 ly fome Man, but fome Scholar there. 



T[ke Cartcfian Flypothefis confider'd and ccnjurd. 



•Having rejefted this Atheifllck Thpotbejh of 

 D 3 ' ^ Epicurus 



