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Rh and Motion; but when he comes to Plants and Animals, he’ll find himelf non-plus’d, and give you no likely account of their Production. For every Thing in them is o exactly adapted to ome Deign, every part of them o fitted to its proper Ue, that they manifet an Infinite Widom, and equiite Knowledge in the Laws of Nature and Geometry, as, to omit thoe Wonders in Generation, we hall by and by how; and make it an Aburdity even to think of their being thus happily jumbled together by a chance Motion of I don’t know what little Particles. Now hould we allow the Planets nothing but vat Deerts, lifeles and inanimate Stocks and Stones, and deprive them of all thoe Creatures that more plainly peak their Divin Architect, we hould ink them below the Earth in Beauty and Dignity; a Thing very unreaonable, as I aid before.

Well then, we have gain’d the Point thus far, and the Planets may be allowed ome Creatures capable of moving themelves, not at all inferior to