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brought acquainted with it by repeated trials; he has no innate- 

 ideas, is unable to ehufe what is proper for his food ; he cannot 

 form his voice to any articulate pronunciation, or to exprefs the 

 affections of love: whereas, the beaft, the bird, and the infect, 

 are born to all that knowledge which is neceffary for the gratifi- 

 cation of thofe defires, or that love which forms their life ; and 

 confequently in the knowledge of every thing relating to their 

 well being, their food, their habitations, the commerce of the 

 fexes, their provifion for their young, &c. : from the impulfe of 

 the pleafure arifing from thefe innate defires and affections, the 

 larva is alio prompted to feek and afpire after a change of it's 

 earthly Mate. If it were not foreign to the fubject in hand, it 

 might be eafy to fhew, by a variety of reafons, that this imper- 

 fection of man at his nativity constitutes his real perfection, and, 

 places him infinitely, if I may fo fpeak, above the brute creation : 

 for man is not created relatively perfect, but formed a recipient 

 of all perfection. 



From this view of things, we may, however, perceive that ani- 

 mals are born in order, and confequently the Divine agency 

 influences or acts on them more immediately, The fame wifdom. 

 which has conftructed and arranged their various organs with fo 

 much art, that they may concur to one determinate end, directs 

 the animal towards this end. Hence it executes with precifion 

 the works we fo much admire : hence it feems to act as if it was 

 capable of reafoning. It is excited to all this by that adorable 

 mind which has traced out to , every infect it's little circle, as he 

 has marked out to each planet it's proper orbit. When, therefore, 

 we fee an infect working a nefr, a chryfalis, &c. we fhould view 

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