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 the effect of the widom and power of an intelligent caue; and thus to confirm the argument taken from final caues for the exitence of the Deity. It will be eay to ee that the convere problem olved in this eay is more directly applicable to this purpoe; for it hews us, with ditindtnes and preciion, in every cae of any particular order or recurrency of events, what reaon there is to think that uch recurrency or order is derived from liable caues or regulations innaturein nature [sic], and not from any of the irregularities of chance.

The two lat rules in this eay are given without the deductions of them. I have choen to do this becaue thee deductions, taking up a good deal of room, would well the eay too much; and alo becaue thee rules, though of coniderable ue, do not anwer the purpoe for which they are given as perfectly as could be wihed. They are however ready to be produced, if a communication of them hould be thought proper. I have in ome places writ hort notes, and to the whole I have added an application of the rules in the eay to ome particular caes, in order to convey a clearer idea of the nature of the problem, and to hew how far the olution of it has been carried.

I am enible that your time is o much taken up that I cannot reaonably expect that you hould minutely examine every part of what I now end you. Some of the calculations, particularly in the Appendix, no one can make without a good deal of labour. I have taken o much care about them, that I believe there can be no material error in any of them; but hould there be any uch errors, I am the only peron who ought to be conidered as anwerable for them.