The Natural Hiflory Part II. 



of the Tragedy terminated there. For 

 the DeftruBion of the Earth was not 

 only an A£t of the profoundeft WiP- 

 dom and Forecaft, but the nioft mo- 

 numental proof that could ever poffi- 

 bly have been, of Goodnefs, CompaC- 

 Hon, and Tendernefs, in the Author 

 of our Being ; and this fb liberal too 

 and extend ve, as to reach all the fuc- 

 ceeding Ages of Mankind : all the Po- 

 fterity of Nod : all that fhould dwell 

 upon the thus renewed Earth to the 

 End of the World ; by this means re- 

 moving the old Charm : the Bait that 

 had lb long bewildred and deluded un- 

 happy Man : letting him once more 

 upon his Legs : reducing him from the' 

 moft abjed and ftupid Ferity, to his 

 Senles, and to fbber Reafon : from the 

 moft deplorable Mifery and Slavery, 

 to a Capacity of being happy. 



That notwithftanding that this Re- 

 medy ftruck as deep at the Intelleftu- 

 als, as at the Morals of Mankind : that 

 Ignorance and Rudeneis would be as 

 necelTary a Confequence of it, as Re- 

 formation of Life: and that this lb ge- 

 neral Employ and Expeoce of their 

 time would as affuredly curtail and re- 

 trench the ordinary means of Know- 



