Part I. Z;^ />6^ C R E A T I O N. I 8 I 



And no Man blames him who fpent his whole 

 Time in the Confideration of the Nature and 

 Works of a Bee, or thinks his Subjed was too 

 narrow. Let us not then efteem any Thing con- 

 temptible, or inconfiderable, or below our no- 

 tice taking 5 for this is to derogate from the Wif- 

 dom and Art of the Creator, and to confefs our- 

 felves unworthy of thcfe Endowments of Know- 

 ledge and Underflanding which he hath beftow- 

 fed on us. Do we praife D^dalus, and Architas^ 

 and Hero, and Callicrates, and Albertus MagnuSy 

 and many others which I might mention, for 

 their Cunning in inventing, and Dexterity in 

 framing. and compofing a few dead Engines, or 

 Movements, and {hall we not admire and mag- 

 nify the Great A/i/zi^p^o^ K3o-//«, Former of the 

 World, who hath made fo many, yea, 1 may 

 fay, innumerable, rare Pieces, and thofe too not 

 dead Ones, fuch as ceafe prcfently to move fo 

 foon as the Spring is down ; but all living, and 

 themfelves performing their own Motions, and 

 thofe fo intricate and various, and requiring fuch 

 a Multitude of Parts and fubordinate Machines, 

 that it is incomprehenfible what Art and Skill, 

 and Induftry, mull be employed in the framing 

 of one of them ? 



I have already noted out of Dv, Hook, that 

 to the Performance of every Mufcular Motion, 

 at leaft in greater Animals, there are not fewer 

 dLftinft Parts concerned, than many Millions of 

 Millions. 



N 3 Further, 



