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him the necessity of any wise and designing jcause in nature. To apply Galen's reasoning, jwith respect to the contrivance and mecha- jnism.of the animal body, to the present case j jWhat can be the effect of a cause, working 1with design and knowledge, if the instance !assigned above , and numberless such others, )be the effects of blind chance, or mechani- ?cal necessity? It is impossible to answer this jquestion in either cafe. For the effects ofthe first must be of a quite different nature jfrom those of the last: or, the effects of a jliving, intelligent cause must have no marks 'of design and contrivance in them. This isto change the natures of things; or else tospeak by way of contradiction. What wouldone conclude (to give another very applica- jble parallel) if he sometimes saw a Musician ;play on an instrument; and by and byheard the same tunes, and even a greater \variety of them, played over on the fame Iinstrument, when no visible Artist was near ? jThe sensory is the instruments which is jsometimes moved by the action of ex ter- ’’nal, living objects; and in darkness and si- |lence, the same way moved, or with far greater Ilatitude, and compasses notes, those objects I

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