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ture; which structure may always be referred to one of 

 two general plans. 



2. Man is apparently the most perfectly constructed 

 animal, on the whole, of all those which are constructed 

 on the same general plan with him ; and with the others 

 he cannot very logically be compared. 



There are few naturalists that will be inclined to dis- 

 pute the truth of these premises, and we may leave it there- 

 fore for the metaphysicians to draw their conclusion. 



