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and to defend the numerous Nerves and Tendons- 

 that are under them, which have a moft exquifite 

 Senfe of Pain, and without that native Armour 

 would continually be expos'd to it j it is manifeft 

 therefore that there was a Contrivance and Fore- 

 fight of the Ufefulnefs of Nails antecedent to 

 their Formation j for the old ftale Pretence of the 

 Atheijis^ that Things were firft made fortuitoufly, 

 an(^ afterwards their Ufefulnefs was obferv'd or 

 difcover'd, can have no place here, ufilefs Naik 

 were either abfolutely requifite to the Exiftence 

 of Mankind, or were found only in fome Indivi- 

 duals or fome Nations of Men, and fo might be 

 afcrib'd to Neceffity upon one Account, or to 

 Fortune upon another. But from the Atheifls 

 Suppofition, that among the infinite Diverfity of 

 the firft terreftrial Productions, thei;e were Ani- 

 mals of all imaginable Shapes and Structures of 

 Body, all of which furviv'd and multiply'd, that 

 by reafon of their Make and Fabrick could pofil- 

 bly do fo. It neceflTarily follows that we fliould 

 now have fome Nations without Nails upon their 

 Fingers, others with one Eye only, as the Poets 

 defcribe yht Cyclopes in Sicily^ and the Arimafpi 

 in Scythia ; others with one Ear, or with one No- 

 ftri], or indeed without any Organ of fmelling, 

 becaufe that Senfe is not neceflary to Man's Sub- 

 fiftence -, others deftitute of the Ufe of Language, 

 feeing that Mutes alfo may live. One People 

 would have the Feet of Goats, as the feign'd 

 Satyrs and Panifci-, another would refemble the 

 liead of Jupiter Ammon, or the horned Statues 



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