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10 Perhaps you have never been at the pains to examine the extraordinary feature with all that attention which it deserves. Allow me then to suggest a few observations on the subject, not with a view of unfolding the whole of its mysterious meaning (for that would require a volume), but only to put you in a train of reflecting within yourself on the wonders of Divine counsel, which the has been pleased to store up, and present to your notice, in the astonishing mechanism of your corporeal frame.

It cannot have escaped the notice of a discerning eye, like yours, that the right side and the left of the human body bear a general resemblance to each other, which resemblance extends, also, to the particular organs and members which enter into the composition of each side. Thus you must have remarked, that the hair, on the right side of the head, is universally of the same colour with the hair on the left side, and that this agreement in colour extends likewise to the eyes, and to the cheeks, on each side of the face. You must too have further remarked, that the arms and hands, the legs and feet, on each side of the body, are so exactly proportioned to each other in length and thickness, that it rarely„ ii ever, happens that there is the slightest disagreement between them except what possibly arises from the habit of using