Art and Nature 
ter, and every Particle of Matter, if carefully 
examined, will afford us new Indru&ion and 
Delight. 
CHAP. LI. 
*[he Works of Art and Nature 
compared together and conjidered . 
EFORE this Treatife is concluded. 
it will not perhaps be thought unpro¬ 
fitable to examine fome of the fined and 
mod exquifite Performances of human Art, 
and compare them with the Productions of 
Nature: as fuch a Comparifon mud tend 
towards humbling the Self-conceit and Pride 
of Man, by giving him a more reafonable 
and moded Opinion of himfelf; and at the 
fame Time may in fome Degree conduce to¬ 
wards improving his imperfeCt Conceptions 
of the Supreme Creator. 
Upon examining the Edge of a very keen 
Razor by the Microfcope, it appeared as 
broad as the Back of a pretty thick Knife; 
rough, uneven, full of Notches and Fur¬ 
rows, and fo far from any Thing like Sharp- 
nefs, that an Indrument as blunt as this 
feemed to be, would not ferve even to cleave 
Wood *. 
An 
* Hook’s Micrcg, 
