•580 PROOFS OF THE EXISTENCE OF A OEITY. 
Chapter XXTV. 
Conclusion. 
In OUT last Chapter we have considered the Na- 
ture of the Evidence afforded by unorganized 
mineral bodies, in proof of the existence of design 
in the original adaptation of the material Ele- 
ments to their various functions, in the inorganic 
and organic departments of the Natural World, 
and have seen that the only sufficient Explana- 
tion we can discover, of the orderly and won- 
derful dispositions of the material Elements “ in 
measure and number and weight,” throughout 
the terraqueous globe, is that wliich refers the 
origin of every thing above us, and beneath us, 
and around us, to the will and workings of One 
Omnipotent Creator. If the properties imparted 
to these Elements at the moment of their Crea- 
tion, adapted them beforehand to the infinity of 
complicated useful purposes, which they have 
already answered, and may have further still to 
answer, under many successive Dispensations in 
the material World, such an aboriginal constitu- 
tion so far from superseding an intelligent Agent, 
would only exalt our conceptions of the consum- 
mate skill and power, that could comprehend 
