Category: Philosophy & Ethics
The Atmosphere, or Mass of Air, Vapours and Clouds, which surrounds our Globe, will appear to be a matter of Design, and the infinitely wise Creator’s Work, if we consider its _Nature_ and _Make_[a], and its _Use_ to the World[b].
The Atmosphere, or Mass of Air, Vapours and Clouds, which surrounds our Globe, will appear to be a matter of Design, and the infinitely wise Creator’s Work, if we consider its _...
2. BOOK II.In the foregoing Book having dispatch’d the Out-works, let us take a Survey of the Principal Fabrick, _viz._ the _Terraqueous Globe_ it self; a most stupendious Work in every pa...
3. BOOK III.Having thus taken a general Prospect of our Terraqueous Globe, I shall in this Book come to its Particulars. But here we have such an immense Variety presenting it self to our S...
4. BOOK IV.In the last BOOK, having survey’d the Earth it self in Particular, I shall next take a View of the Inhabitants thereof; or the several Kinds of Creatures[a], that have their Hab...
5. BOOK V.The first _Genus_ of Animals that I shall take Notice of, shall be _Man_, who may justly claim the Precedence in our Discourse, inasmuch as God hath given him the Superiority in...
6. Part 2. and _Dr. ~Cockburn~’s Essays on Faith_, Part 1. Essay 5.[b] _Ad hanc providentiam Naturæ tam diligentera ~[of which he had been before speaking]~ tamque solertem adjungi multa possunt, è quibus intelligatur, quantæ res hominibus à De...
7. Letter I receiv’d from the before-commended very curious and ingeniousPhysician Dr. _Tancred Robinson_, _What_, (saith he,) _can possibly be better contriv’d for animal Motion and Life, than the quick Circulation of the Blood and Fluids, which run...
8. BOOK VI.In taking a View of this Part of the Animal World, so far as the Structure of their Bodies is conformable to that of Man, I shall pass them by, and only take notice of some Pecu...
9. BOOK VII.And here we have another large Province to expatiate in, if we should descend to every Thing wherein the Workmanship of the Almighty appears. But I must contract my Survey as mu...
10. BOOK VIII.Having dispatch’d that Part of the animal World, which used to be accounted the more perfect, those Animals styled less perfect or imperfect, will next deserve a Place in our Su...
11. BOOK IX.Having dispatch’d the insect Tribe, there is but one _Genus_ of the Land-Animals remaining to be survey’d; and that is, that of _Reptiles_[a]. Which I shall dispatch in a little...
12. BOOK X.The Vegetable Kingdom, although an inferiour Branch of the Creation, exhibits to us such an ample Scene of the Creator’s Contrivance, Curiosity, and Art, that I much rather chus...
13. BOOK XI.Having in the preceding Books carried my Survey as far as I care at present to engage my self, all that remaineth, is to draw some Inferences from the foregoing Scene of the gre...