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ceeding fmall, what muft we think of their 

 Mufcles and other Parts ? Certain it is, that the 

 Mechanifm by which Nature performs the Muf- 

 cular Motion, is exceeding fmall and curious, 

 and to the Performance of every Mufcular Mo- 

 tion, in greater Animals at leaft, there are not 

 fewer diftindt Parts concerned than many Mil- 

 lions of Millions, and thefe vifible through a Mi- 

 crofcope. 



Ufe. Let us then confider the Works of God, 

 and obferve the Operations of his Hands: Let 

 us take notice of, and admire his infinite Wif- 

 dom and Goodnefs in the Formation of them : 

 No Creature in this fublunary World is capable 

 of fo doing, befides Man, and yet we are defi- 

 cient herein : We content ourfelves with the 

 Knowledge of the Tongues, or a little Skill in 

 Philology, or Hiflory perhaps, and Antiquity, 

 and negled that which to me feems more mate- 

 rial, I mean, Natural Hiftory, and the Works 

 of the Creation : I do not difcommend or dero- 

 gate from thofe other Studies : I fhould betray 

 mine own Ignorance and Weaknefs fhould I do 

 fo ; I only wifh they might not altogether juflle 

 out, and exclude this. I wifh that this might be 

 brought in Fafhion among us j I wifli Men 

 would be fo equal and civil, as not to difparage, 

 deride, and vilifie thofe Studies which themfelves 

 skill not of, or are not converfant in ; no Knowr- 

 ledge can be more pleafant than this, none that 

 doth fo fatisfie and feed the Soul ^ in Compari- 



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