(ECONOMY 
mals, purfues and catches the fwifteft, nay he is 
able to reach even thofe, which lye hid in the 
bottom of the fea. 
By the help of reafon he increafes the num- 
ber of vegetables immenfely, and does that by 
ait, which nature, left to herfelf, could fcarcely 
effeft. By ingenuity he obtains from vege- 
tables whatever is convenient or neceflary for 
food, drink, cloathing, medicine, navigation, 
and a thoufand other purpofes. 
He has found the means of going down into 
the abyfs of the earth, and almoft fearching 
its very bowels. With what artifice has he 
learned to get fragments from the mo ft rocky 
mountains, to make the hardeft ftones fluid like 
water ; to feparate the ufefull metal from the 
ufelefs drofs, and to turn the fin eft fand to 
fome ufe ! In ftiort when we follow the feries 
of created things, and conflder how provi^ 
dentially one is made for the fake of another, 
the matter comes to this, that all things are 
made for the fake of man •, and for this end 
more efpecially, that he by admiring the works 
of the Creator fliould extoll his glory, and at 
once enjoy all thofe things, of which he ftands 
in need, in order to pafs his life conveniently 
and pleafantly. 
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