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ture of the yolk are exquisitely beautiful, though 
destined to endure but for twenty or rather ten 
days. What superabundance and prodigality of 
ornament for so momentary an existence ! But 
time, all important to us, since it destroys us, is 
nothing to God, because he changes not. His 
creative wisdom alike adorns the grass which en- 
dures for a day, and the oak which lasts for ages. 
It would appear that God had thought fit that the 
world, as one theatre of his wisdom, should have 
as many parts in order and organization as the 
nature of things would admit, and that noise and 
confusion should have the least possible place. 
Upon the whole, it appears certain, that the beauti- 
ful structure of animals, however various, is always 
perfectly adapted to the proper and distinct habits, 
and functions, and manner of fife of each ; calcu- 
lated by rules more perfect than those of human 
geometry, and most evidently accommodated to 
foreseen purposes ; in the eye, the ear, the hand, 
and finally, every where, and can be ascribed to 
no cause less than the infinite wisdom of the Great 
Creator.” 
In 1773, Haller published, in the Memoirs of the 
Economical Society of Bemd, an able treatise on 
the nature of the “ Epizootie,” that dreadful disease 
among homed cattle, which for several years de- 
stroyed so many hundreds of thousands in so many 
countries of Europe. He there demonstrated, that 
though with great care they had overcome its violence 
and checked its progress on the side of Switzerland, 
