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Show that they are constant, and pervade nature Thes are no the dream of a few poets here and there, but man is an analogist and studies relations in all objects. He i placed in the centre of beings, and a ra of relation passes from every other bein to him. And neither can man be understood without these objects, nor these objects without man. All the facts in natura history taken by themselves, have no value but are barren like a single sex. But marr it to huma history, and it is full of life Whole Floras, all Linnzeus' an volumes, are but dry catalogue Buffon' of facts but the most trivial of these facts, the habi of a plant, the organs, or work, or noise o an insect, applied to the illustration of fact in intellectual philosophy, or, in an way associated to human nature, affect us in the most lively and agreeable manner. The seed of a plant,-to what affect ing analogies in the nature of man, is tha little fruit made use of, in all discourse, u to the voice of Paul, who calls the huma corpse a seed,- Itis sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body." The motio of the earth round its axis, and round th sun, make th day an the year. Thes 3 Digital Image ©) 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah. All rghts reserved |
