"Let us take a Survey of the principal Fabrick, viz,
the Terraqueous Globe itself; a most stupendous work in every particular
of it, which doth no less aggrandize its Maker than every curious complete
work doth its Workman. Let us cast our eyes here and there, let us ransack
all the Globe, let us with the greatest accuracy inspect every part thereof
search out the inmost secrets of any of the creatures, let us examine them
with all our gauges, measure them with our nicest rules, pry into them
with our microscopes and most exquisite instruments, still we find them
to bear testimony to their infinite Workman."
DERHAM'S PHYSICO-THEOLOGY, BOOK II. p. 38.
"Could the body of the whole Earth - - be submitted to the Examination
of our Senses, were it not too big and disproportioned for our Enquiries,
too unwieldy for the Management of the Eye and Hand, there is no question
but it would appear to us as curious and well-contrived a frame as that
of an human body. We should see the same Concatenation and Subserviency,
the same Necessity and Usefulness, the same Beauty and Harmony in all and
every of its Parts, as what we discover in the Body of every single Animal."
SPECTATOR NO. 543.