i62 A NATURAL HISTORY 



We may obferve the like mechanic Perception in feveral 

 empty Drinking-Glaffes, of fine white Metal. Thus if we caufe 

 the Strings of a mufical Inftrument to be ftretched to a certain 

 Tone or Note, it would make one of the Glaffes ring, and not the 

 other; nor would the Sound of the fame String, tuned to another, 

 fenfibly afFedt the fame Glafs. Morhoff mentions one Fetter, a 

 Dutchfjian, who could break Rummer-GlalTes with the Tone of 

 his Voice. The fame, I think, is faid of Puree!. 



When two Viols are tuned in Unifon, one of them being 

 touch'd, the other will anfwer, tho' at fome diftance. This is a 

 noble Proof of an harmonious Creation ; This Unifon looks like 

 a more pure fort of fympathifing that is found in all the Crea- 

 tures, when thofe of the fame Species flock together. 



Here give me leave to obferve, that all Nature is as it were 

 a Syftem of divine Mufick, and delightful Harmony ; or, in the 

 facred Language, a Poem which is a Work of Skill, curious and 

 polite, lofty and fublime j in which Numbers and Meafures are 

 exadlly obferved. Under this Idea of a Poem the old and new 

 Creation are reprefented. 



THE invifible things of him from the Creatimi of the World are 

 dearly feen, being under flood by the thijigsthat are made, t<»? Tmyiu-ccTi *, 

 Poems that are made. The Creation is, as it were, a Poem in 

 the Sublime : Every Species of created Beings is a Stanza, and 

 every individual Creature, a Verfe in it, as a certain learned Di- 

 vine exprefles it. Creation here is not ftiled £p/"'^ which is a 

 Work of manual Labor, but Toin/** +, a Work of Skill ; not fo 

 much the Operation of the Hand, as of the Head and Heart : 

 No Creature fo fmall and mean, but glitters with a Beam of di- 

 vine Skill. 



S o the new Creation is ftil'd a Poem .... We are his Workman- 

 Jhip in Chrift JefuSy Eph. ii. lo. In the Greek, ive ewe his Poem 

 in Chriji fefus. 



As for the feveral Moods, which, in mufical Compofition^ 

 were obferved by the Antients, for moving particular Paffions, 

 there is a remarkable Fragment of Damon the Mufician, men- 

 tioned by Arifiides in Plutarch, This is fuppofed to be that kind 

 of Mufick ufed by David and Elif:a, as a Prefcription to remove 

 mental Diforders ; and may fuppofe to point at the Original of 



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* THIS- woi>in.«ri. Rom. i. ZO. t AvTS T«P fcfxev ToiMf**- Eph ii. 10. 



