Tracts relating to natural history / By James Edward Smith.

  • Smith, James Edward, 1759-1828.
Date:
1798
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    drawing univerfal conclufions. When we fubject the human body to the knife of the anatomift, in order to find in the ftructure of its internal organs fomething which we do not obferve in other animals, to account for this operation we are obliged to own the vanity of our refearches:. we mutt therefore necefiarily afcribe this preroga- tive to fomething altogether mnmaterial, which the Creator has given to man alone, and which we call /ow/. If therefore. the Maker’ of all Ehsiapae who has done nothing without defign, has furnifhed this earthly globe, like a mufeum, with the moft admirable proofs of his wifdom and power; if, moreover, this {plendid theatre would be adorned in vain without a fpeCtator ; and if he has placed in it Man, the chief and moft perfe@ of all his works, who is alone capable of duly confidering the wonderful ceconomy of the whole; it follows, that Man is made for. the purpofe of ftudying the Creator’s works, that he may obferve in them the evident marks of divine wifdom. 2 Thus