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of our thoughts, are fo contrived, that they 
concur to make manifeft the divine glory, i. e. 
the ultimate end which God propofed in all his 
works. Whoever duly turns his attention to 
the things on this our terraqueous globe, mud 
neceiTarilv confefs, that they are fo conne&ed, 
fo chained together, that they all aim at the 
fame end, and to this end a vafl number of 
intermediate ends are fubfervient. But as the 
intent of this treatife will not fuffer me to con- 
fider them all, i fhall at prefent only take no- 
tice of fuch as relate to the prefervation of na- 
tural things. In order therefore to perpetuate 
the eftablifhed courfe of nature in a continued 
feries, the divine wifdonvhas thought fit, that 
all living creatures fhould conflantly be em- 
ployed in producing individuals; that all na- 
tural things fhould contribute and lend a help- 
ing hand to preferve every fpecies ; and laflly, 
that the death and defcruction of one thing 
fhould always be fubfervient to the reftitution 
of another. It feems to me that a greater 
fubjeft than this cannot be found, nor one on 
which laborious men may more worthily em- 
ploy their induffay, or men pf genius their pe*= 
netrapon. 
I am 
