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6 various kinds and orders of goods, towards which they are directed, and that the understanding, or thought, of man is also a complex of thoughts, the multitude of which is, in like manner, proportioned to the same variety in the kinds and orders of the goods, about which they are occupied? It is evident then, that the human mind doth not consist of only one single love, or of one single thought, but of an indefinite variety of both, and that in this variety there are several orders and degrees, answering to and corresponding with the several parts of the human body. Thus one order and degree of loves and of thoughts may constitute the head in the mind, whilst another may constitute the trunk, another the arms and hands, and a fourth the legs and feet, the three latter being all of them in subordination to, and under the control of, the first, or highest, as is the case in the corresponding members of the body, which are all of them subject to, and at the disposal of the head.

Behold here, then, my dear Sir, not only a development of the origin of that stupendous organization which you observe in your own body, as consisting of a variety of members and organs, all subordinated to each other in a wonderful order, but a lesson too of the most interesting wisdom, respecting the formation, or to speak more properly, the re-formation of