"Let us take a Survey of the principal Fabrick, viz. the Terraqueous 

 Globe itself; a most stupendous work in every particular of it, which doth 

 no less aggrandize its Maker than every curious complete work doth its 

 Workman. Let us cast our eyes here and there, let us ransack all the 

 Globe, let us with the greatest accuracy inspect every part thereof, search 

 out the inmost secrets of any of the creatures, let us examine them with all 

 our gauges, measure them with our nicest rules, pry into them with our 

 microscopes and most exquisite instruments, still we find them to bear 

 testimony to their infinite Workman." 



derham's physico-theology, book ii. p. 38. 



"Could the body of the whole Earth - - be submitted to the Examination 

 of our Senses, were it not too big and disproportioned for our Enquiries, too 

 unwieldy for the Management of the Eye and Hand, there is no question 

 but it would appear to us as curious and well-contrived a frame as that of an 

 human body. We should see the same Concatenation and Subserviency, 

 the same Necessity and Usefulness, the same Beauty and Harmony in all 

 and every of its Parts, as what we discover in the Body of every single 

 Animal." spectator, no. 543. 



