the Natural Hi flory Patt IIL 



And, as I caonot admit that there is 

 any thing unhandron[ie or irregulars 

 fo much lefs can I grant that there is 

 any thing incommodious and Artlefs^ 

 or ufelefs and Superfluous, in the Globe. 

 Were 1 at full Liberty to do it here^ 

 ^t would be no hard thing to make ap- 

 pear that there are no real Grounds for 

 any fuch Charge. For how eafie were 

 it, by taking a minute and diltinct Sur- 

 vey of the Globe, and of the very ma- 

 ny and various Limbs and Parts of it, 

 to fhew that all thefe are ordered and 

 digefted with infinite Exa&neft and 

 Artifice; each in fuch manner as may 

 befl: ferve to its own proper End, and 

 to the life of the whole ? How eafie 

 were it to Ih^w, that the Rocks, the 

 Mountains, and the Caverns, againft 

 which thefe Exceptions are made, are 

 of indifpenfible Ufe and Neceffity, as 

 well to the Earth, as to Man and other 

 Animals, and even to all the reft of its 

 Produftions ? That there are no fuch 

 Elemifhes, no Defefts: nothing that 

 might have been altered for the better : 

 nothing fuperfluous : nothing ufelefs, 

 in all the whole Compofition ? and 

 fo finally trace out the numerous Foot- 

 Ikps and Marks of the Prefence and 



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