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down the vegetable crop, that the yearly growth may be renewed ; 2d, by reftraining 

 the numbers of fach as become erroneous, left any of the proper fpecies be expelled ; 

 3d, by deftroying languid, dead, natty, defiled, ftagnant, acid, and putrid matters, that 

 the elegance of Nature may be preferved : — Laftiy, To defend themfelves from ex- 

 Unction, left the execution of Nature's laws fhould be neglected. 



The economy of Nature is employed in the Generation, Prefervation, and Deftruc- 

 tion, of things ; and all Nature confpires together that the works of the Creator may 

 continue unimpared. Animals are generated in the genial influence of warm blood, 

 having need of the care of others for their education; and, as the Creator, who could 

 not be rewarded, took care of the firft race of individuals, this truft paries, in the de- 

 fending line, to their offspring, who do not. repay the labours of their parents. Pre- 

 fervation is to be accompliftied by the provifion of daily food, which, being widely 

 fcattered, is therefore to be fought after with diligence ; thus, want fcatters thofe over 

 the face of the earth whom love gathers together. The deftruclion of one individual 

 is neceffary for repairing the wants of another ; life muft be fuftained by conftant and 

 laborious fearch after the carcaffes of objects fit for food, and thefe do not abundantly 

 occur : Thus, a continual devaftation of all things is produced ; the more alert efcape 

 the danger by their bravery, by defences, and by various contrivances; while the more 

 languid fink under the perpetual warfare ; the moft a£tive haften on in their courfe, 

 that Nature may perpetually rejoice in the conftant renovation of all her works. 



The incentives of Nature, which are implanted in all her works, that they may 

 readily perform their duty, are — Love, which kindly convocates the fexes, and excites 

 to the multiplication of their kinds ; — Craving Hunger again difperfes them, that they 

 may labour for their prefervation ; and — Horrible Pain ftirs them up to deftroy, and 

 caufes them to avoid deftruction. In all, the wifdom of God is made manifeft. 



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