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Why the earth was at first so constituted that the deluge should 
be rendered necessary — ^why the earth could not have been at first 
stored with all those substances, and endued with all those pro- 
perties, which seem to have proceeded from the deluge— why so 
many beings were created, as it appears, for the purpose of being 
destroyed — are questions which I presume not to answer. Trusting 
that what has already been said must render theii' solution less diffi- 
cult, and lead to conclusions less repugnant to reason than some 
which have been advanced by men of considerable abilities and 
learning, I shall here close our correspondence, for the present, 
experiencing no small degree of satisfaction at finding every fact I 
have noticed, and every conclusion which they have led me to make, 
to be in perfect accordance with the highest sentiments which can be 
formed respecting those laws, by which the regulation of the eco- 
nomy of creation was decreed. 
Yours, &c. 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 
LEICESTER : 
PRINTED BY T. COMBE AND SON, GALEOWTREE-GATE. 
