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we have shown to be mere chimera. In vam do 

 they have recourse to that other axiom, of being 

 obliged to make every thing by the most simple 

 means. Very far from its being more simple to 

 employ the same materials for different objects, 

 it is easy to conceive some instances in which 

 this method would have been the most compli- 

 cated of all ; and certainly nothing is less satis- 

 factorily proved than this constant simplicity of 

 means. Beauty, richness, abundance, have been 

 the ways of the Creator, no less than simplicity. 

 ♦* Whenever they who, in recent times, have 

 sought to give a new form to the metaphysical 

 system of pantheism, and which they have en- ■ 

 titled ' Philosophy ef Nature,' have adopted 

 the two hypotheses of which we have just 

 spoken, they have added a third, quite of the 

 same kind. Not only each being, according to 

 these, represents all others, but it has a repre- 

 sentation of itself in each of its parts. The 

 head is a complete body ; the skull, composed 

 of vertebrae, is the spine ; the nose is the thorax; 

 the mouth the abdomen; the upper jaw the arms, 

 the lower the legs ; the teeth are fingers or 

 nails ; and in this thorax, in these four mem- 

 bers, are to be found the larynx, the ribs, the 



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