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THE BOOK OF CURIOSITIES:
CONTAINING TEN THOUSAND WONDERS AND CURIOSITIES OF NATURE AND ART;
AND OF
Remarkable and Astonishing PLACES, BEINGS, ANIMALS, CUSTOMS, EXPERIMENTS, PHENOMENA, etc., of both Ancient and Modern Times, on all Parts of the GLOBE: comprising Authentic Accounts of the most WONDERFUL FREAKS of NATURE and ARTS of MAN.
BY THE REV. I. PLATTS.
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY LEARY & GETZ. 1854.
CONTENTS.
Abderites, or inhabitants of Abdera, curious account of, 45
Abstinence, wonders of, 67
Act of faith, 638
Adansonia; or, African calabash tree, 378
Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, account of, 120
Agrigentum, in Sicily, ruins of, 540
Air, its pressure and elasticity, 839
Alarm bird, 243
Alexandria, buildings and library of, 549
Alhambra, 559
Alligators, 164
American natural history, 182
Anagrams, 450
Andes, 415
Androides, 701
Anger, surprising effects of, 82
Animalcules, 357
Animal generation, curiosities respecting, 139
Animals, formation of, 142
Animals, preservation of, 144
Animals, destruction of, 150
Animal reproductions, 154
Animals and plants, winter sleep of, 808
Animals, remarkable strength of affection in, 184
Animals, surprising instances of sociality in, 185
Animals, unaccountable faculties possessed by some, 187
Animals, remarkable instances of fasting in, 189
Animal flower, 392
Anthropophagi, or men-eaters, account of, 75
Ants, curiosities of, 290
Ants, green, 311
Ants, white, or termites, 301
Ant, lion, 312
Ants, visiting, 312
Aphis, curiosities respecting, 331
Aqueducts, remarkable, 795
Arc, Joan of, 927
Ark of Noah, 582
Artificer, unfortunate, 745
Artificial figure to light a candle, 830
Asbestos, 402
Athos, mount, 423
Attraction, examples of, 837
Augsburg, curiosities of, 576
Aurora borealis, 684
Automaton, description of, 700
B
Babylon, 557
Bacon flitch, custom at Dunmow, Essex, 605
Balbeck, ancient ruins of, 538
Bannian tree, 374
Baptism, a curious one, 642
Baratier, John Philip, premature genius of, 125
Barometer, rules for predicting the weather by it, 864
Beards, remarks concerning, 31
Beaver, description of, 156
Beavers, habitations of the, 158
Bee, the honey, 265
Bees, wild, curiosities of, Clothier Bee, Carpenter Bee, Mason Bee, Upholsterer Bee, Leaf-cutter Bee, 277, 278, 279, 280
Bees, account of an idiot-boy and, 283
Bees, Mr. Wildman's curious exhibitions of, explained, 283
Bells, baptism of, 639
Benefit of clergy, origin and history of, 623
Bird of Paradise, 230
Bird, singular account of one inhabiting a volcano in Guadalope, 246
Bird-catching fish, 196
Bird-catching, curious method of, 260
Birds, method of preserving, 865
Birds, hydraulic, 713
Birds, song of, 261
Birds' nests, 251
Bisset, Samuel, the noted animal instructor, 124
Bletonism, 95
Blind clergyman of Wales, 903
Blind persons, astonishing acquisitions made by some, 46
Blind Jack of Knaresborough, 900
Blood, circulation of, 24
Blunders, book of, 761
Boa Constrictor, 217
Boat-fly, 342
Body, human, curiosities of the, 13
Bolea, Monte, 418
Books, curious account of the scarcity of, 757
Borrowdale, 458
Bottles, to uncork, 836
Boverick's curiosities, 713
Bowthorpe oak, 382
Bread-fruit tree, 372
Bread, old, curious account of, 807
Brine, to ascertain the strength of, 839
Brown, Simon, and his curious dedication to queen Caroline, 108
Bunzlau curiosities, 714
Buonaparte, principal events in the life of, 126
Burning spring in Kentucky, 493
Burning and hot springs, 494, 495, 496, 497
Burning, extraordinary cures by, 792
Burning-glasses, 717
Bustard, the great, 243
Butterflies, beauty and diversities of, 344
Butterflies, to take an impression of their wings, 866
C
Camera obscura, to make, 830
Candiac, John Lewis, account of, 113
Candlemas-day, 632
Cannon, extraordinary, 807
Cards, origin of, 767
Carrier, or courier pigeon, 244
Carthage, ancient grandeur of, 542
Case, John, celebrated quack doctor, 113
Catching a hare, curious custom respecting, 601
Caterpillar, 219
Caterpillar-eaters, 220
Cave of Fingal, 452
Cave near Mexico, 457
Centaurs and Lapithæ, 785
Chameleon, particulars respecting, 175
Changeable flower, 387
Cheese-mite, curiosities respecting, 358
Chemical illuminations, 844
Chick, formation of in the egg, 249
Child, extraordinary arithmetical powers of a, 88
Chiltern hundreds, 634
China, great wall of, 579
Chinese, funeral ceremonies of the, 610
Christmas-boxes, origin of, 633
Cinchona, or Peruvian bark, curious effects of, 390
Clepsydra, 706
Clock-work, extraordinary pieces of, 704
Clouds, electrified, terrible effects of, 656
Coal-pit, visit to one, 469
Cocoa-nut tree, 371
Coins of the kings of England, 814
Cold, surprising effects of extreme, 659
Colossus, 570
Colours, experiments on, 867
Colours, incapacity of distinguishing, 56
Combustion of the human body by the immoderate use of spirits, 97
Common house-fly, curiosities of the, 337
Company of Stationers, singular custom annually observed by the, 766
Conscience, instances of the power of, 84
Cormorant, 242
Coruscations, artificial, 849
Cotton wool, curious particulars of a pound weight of, 391
Countenance, human, curiosities of the, 18
Cromwell, A. M. of Hammersmith, a rich miser, 897
Creeds of the Jews, 775
Crichton, the admirable, 911
Crichup Linn, 797
Crocodile, 163
Crocodile, fossil, curiosity of, 165
Cuckoo, curiosities respecting, 240
Curfew bell, why so called, 635
Curious historical fact, 744
D
Dancer, Daniel, account of, 104
Dajak, inhabitants of Borneo, curious funeral ceremonies of, 612
Deaf, to make the, perceive sounds, 828
Deaths, poetical, grammatical, and scientific, 73
Death-watch, 347
Diamond mine, on the river Tigitonhonha, in the Brazilian territory, 460
Diamond, wonderful, 405
Diana, temple of, at Ephesus, 554
Dictionary, modern, 950
Dimensions, &c. of some of the largest trees growing in England, 382
Diseases peculiar to particular countries, 789
Dismal swamp, 798
Dog, remarkable, 194
Dog, curious anecdotes of a, 195
Dogs, sagacity of, 193
Dreams, instances of extraordinary, 70
Dwarfs, extraordinary, 40
E
Eagle, the golden, 237
Ear, curious structure of the, 22
Earl of Pembroke, curious extracts from the will of an, 773
Earth-eaters, 908
Earthquakes, and their causes, 499
Eating, singularities of different nations in, 595
Eclipses, 676
Eddystone rocks, 797
Egg, to soften an, 851
Electricity, illumination by, 793
Electrical experiments, 841
Elephant, account of an, 168
Elephant, docility of the, 170
Elwes, John, account of, 104
English ladies turned Hottentots, 744
Ephemeral flies, 343
Ephesus, temple of Diana at, 554
Escurial, 577
Etna, 443
Extraordinary custom, 601
Eye, curious formation of the, 20
F
Fact, the most extraordinary on record, 744
Fairy rings, 667
Falling stars, 681
Faquirs, travelling, 940
Fasting, extraordinary instances of, 65
Fata Morgana, 665
Feasts, among the ancients of various nations, 614
Female beauty and ornaments, 596
Fiery fountain, 844
Fire-balls, 655
Fire of London, 748
Fire, perpetual, 806
Fisher, Miss Clara, 905
Fishes, air bladder in, 201
Fishes, respiration in, 202
Fishes, shower of, 203
Flea, account of a, 325
Flea, on the duration of the life of a, 328
Florence statues, 579
Fly, the common house, 337
Fly, the Hessian, 336
Fly, the May, 340
Fly, the vegetable, 341
Fly, the boat, 342
Flying, artificial, 716
Fountain trees, 375
Freezing mixture, to form, 859
Freezing, astonishing expansive force of, 661
Friburg, curiosities of, 575
Friendship, curious demonstrations of, 594
Friendship, true Roman, recipe for establishing, 951
Fright, or terror, remarkable effects of, 82
Frog, the common, 160
Frog-fish, 196
Frosts, remarkable, 533
Flower, the animal, 392
Fruits, injuries from swallowing the stones of, 791
Funeral ceremonies of the ancient Ethiopians, 609
Fungi, 395
G
Galley of Hiero, 584
Galvanism, 689
Gardens, floating, 580
Gardens, hanging, 558
Garter, origin of the order of the, 623
Gas lights, miniature, 836
Gauts, or Indian Appenines, 421
Giants, curious account of, 39
Giant's causeway, 590
Gipsies, 732
Glaciers, 529
Glass, ductility of, 720
Glass, to cut, without a diamond, 833
Glass, to write on, by the sun's rays, 858
Gluttony, instances of extraordinary, 64
Gold, remarkable ductility and extensibility of, 721
Graham, the celebrated Dr. 909
Gravity, experiments respecting the, 838
Great events from little causes, 746
Grosbeak, the social, 234
Grosbeak, the Bengal, 235
Grotto in South America, 445
Grotto del Cani, 446
Grotto of Antiparos, 447
Grotto of Guacharo, 450
Growth, extraordinary instances of rapid, 37
Guinea, explanation of all the letters on a, 768
Gulf stream, 490
H
Hagamore, Rev. Mr. a most singular character, 896
Hail, surprising showers of, 518
Hair of the head, account of, 28
Hair, instances of the internal growth of, 30
Hair, ancient and modern opinions respecting the, 29
Halo, or corona, and similar appearances, 680
Hand-fasting, 609
Harmattan, 511
Harrison, a singular instance of parsimony, 903
Heat, diminished by evaporation, 839
Hecla, 442
Heidelberg clock, 705
Heinecken, Christian Henry, account of, 114
Hell, opinions respecting, 812
Henderson, John, the Irish Crichton, 883
Henry, John, singular character of, 107
Herculaneum and Pompeii, 536
Herschel's grand telescope, 713
Hessian fly, 339
Hobnails, origin of the sheriff's counting, 622
Holland, North, curious practice in, 630
Honour, extraordinary instances of, 80
Horse, remarkable instances of sagacity in a, 192
Human heart, structure of the, 24
Humming bird, 236
Huntingdon, William, eccentric character of, 134
Hurricane, curious particulars respecting a, 511
Husband long absent, returned, 741
Hydra, or polypes, account of, 359
I
Ice, Greenland or polar, 525
Ice, tremendous concussions of fields of, 528
Ice, showers of, 533
Ignis Fatuus, 644
Improvement of the learned, 765
Incubus, or nightmare, 941
Indian jugglers, 897
Individuation, 780
Indulgences, Romish, 636
Ingratitude, shocking instances of, 78
Inks, various sympathetic, 853 to 857
Insects, metamorphoses of: the butterfly, the common fly, the grey-coated gnat, the shardhorn beetle, 345
Insects blown from the nose, --
Integrity, striking instances of, 77
Inverlochy castle, 574
Island, new, starting from the sea, 491
J
Jew's harp, 795
John Bull, origin of the term of, 634
K
Killarney, the lake of, 487
Kimos, singular nation of dwarfs, 43
Knout, 804
Kraken, 210
L
Labrador stone, 402
Lady of the Lamb, 601
Lama, 810
Lambert, Daniel, account of, 887
Lamps, remarkable, 805
Lamp, phosphoric, 844
Lanterns, feast of, 621
Laocoon, monument of, 556
Leaves, to take an impression of them, 866
Letter, curious, from Pomare, king of Otaheite, to the Missionary Society, 773
Libraries, celebrated, 760
Light produced under water, 850
Lightning, extraordinary properties and effects of, 651
Lightning, to produce artificial, 844
Liquids, to produce changeable-coloured, 858
Liquids, to exchange two in different bottles, 872
Literary labour and perseverance, 756
Lizard, imbedded in coal, 225
Locusts, and their uses in the creation, 349
London, compendious description of, 813
London, intellectual improvement in, 761
Longevity, extraordinary instances of, 96
Louse, 328
Love-letter, and answer, curious, 774
Luminous insects, 319
M
M'Avoy, Miss Margaret, 919
Maelstrom, 489
Magdalen's hermitage, 575
Magic oracle, 845
Magical bottle, 851
Magical drum, 806
Magnetism, 693
Magnetic experiments, 848
Magnify, to, small objects, 882
Mahometan paradise, 811
Maiden, 599
Mammoth, or Fossil Elephant, found in Siberia, 170
Man with the iron mask, 727
Mandrake, 387
Marmot, or the Mountain Rat of Switzerland, 167
Marriage custom of the Japanese, 604
Marriage ceremonies, curious, in different nations, 602
Masons, free and accepted, 737
Mathematical talent, curious instance of, 93
Matrimonial ring, 608
Matter, divisibility of, 793
May-fly, 340
May poles and garlands, the origin of, 629
Memnon, palace of, 552
Memory, remarkable instance of, 86
Metals, different, to discover, 828
Metals, mixed, to detect, 871
Metcalf, John, alias Blind Jack of Knaresborough, 900
Microscopic experiments, 859
Migration of birds, 253
Mills, remarkable, 799
Mint of Segovia, 799
Miraculous vessel, 852
Mirage, account of, 521
Miners, curious effects of, 833
Mite, the cheese, curiosities respecting, 358
Mock suns, 673
Mocking bird of America, 233
Mole, the common, 159
Money, test of good or bad, 834
Monkey, sagacity of a, 192
Monsoons, or trade winds, 512
Monster, 777
Montague, Edward Wortley, 110
Mont Blanc, in Switzerland, 427
Moon, account of three volcanoes in the, 682
Morland, George, account of, 114
Moscow, great bell of, 726
Mosquitoes, and their uses, 355
Mourning, ancient modes of, 613
Mountains, natural descriptions of, 406
Mountains Written, Mountains of Inscription, or Jibbel El Mokatteb, 422
Mount Snowden, excursion to the top of, 412
Mud and Salt, volcanic eruptions of, in the island of Java, 467
Murdering statue, 801
Museum, 566
Mushroom, 395
Mushroom-stone, 402
N
Names, curious, adopted in the civil war, 772
Naphtha springs, 492
National debt, singular calculation respecting, 816
Natural productions, resembling artificial compositions, 804
Natural history, curious facts in, 247
Nautilus, 197
Navigation, perfection of, 481
Needles, 722
Needle's eye, 459
News, origin of the word, 762
Newspapers, origin of, 762
New studies in old age, instances of, 763
New year's gifts, origin of, 633
Niagara, and its falls, 485
Nicholas Pesce, 117
Nitre caves of Missouri, 457
Nokes, Edward, a miser, 888
Numbers, remarkable instance of skill in, 86
Numbers, curious arrangements of, 868, 871
Nuns, particulars respecting, 811
Nuovo, Monte, 419
O
Oak-tree, remarkable account of, 380
Oakham, custom at, 630
Obelisk, remarkable, near Forres, in Scotland, 573
Okey Hole, 458
Orang-Outang, 178
Origin of 'That's a Bull,' 635
Origin of the old adage respecting St. Swithin, and rainy weather, 635
Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, 166
Ostrich, curiosities of the, 231
Owl, adventure of an, 247
P
Pausilippo, 419
Peacock, the common, 226
Peak in Derbyshire, description of, 409
Peeping Tom of Coventry, 740
Peg, to make a, to fit three differently shaped holes, 872
Pelican, the great, 229
Penance, curious account of a, 643
Performances of a female, blind almost from her infancy, 53
Persons born defective in their limbs, wonderful instances of adroitness of, 54
Peruke, 783
Peru, mines of, 465
Pesce, Nicholas, extraordinary character of, 117
Pharos of Alexandria, 549
Phosphoric fire, sheet of, 669
Phosphorus, 670
Pichinca, 415
Pico, 422
Pigeon, wild, its multiplying power, 245
Pigeon, carrier, or courier, 244
Pin-making, 721
Pitch-wells, 468
Plague, dreadful instances of the, in Europe, 747
Plant, curious, 386
Plants, curious dissemination of, 366
Plants upon the earth, prodigious number of, 367
Plough-Monday, origin of, 632
Poison-eater, remarkable account of, 94
Pompey's pillar, 547
Pope Joan, 931
Portland vase, 800
Praxiteles' Venus, 712
Praying machines of Kalmuck, 642
Price, Charles, the renowned swindler, 889
Prince Rupert's drops, 853
Prolificness, extraordinary instances of, 37
Psalmanazar, George, noted impostor, 112
Pulpit, curious, 801
Pyramids of Egypt, 544
Q
Quaint lines, 772
Queen Charlotte, curious address to, 769
Queen, a blacksmith's wife become a, 749
Queen Elizabeth's dinner, curious account of the ceremonies at, 749
Queen Elizabeth, quaint lines on, 772
R
Recreations, amusing, in optics, &c. 873 to 882
Recreations, amusing, with numbers, 820 to 827
Religion, celebrated speech on, 944
Reproduction, 781
Repulsion, examples of, 837
Respiration, interesting facts concerning, 26
Revivified rose, 858
Rhinoceros, 162
Rings, on the origin of, 606
Rosin bubbles, 851
Royal progenitors, 744
Ruin at Siwa in Egypt, 534
S
Salutation, various modes of, 598
Sand-floods, account of, 521
Savage, Richard, extraordinary character of, 128
Scaliot's lock, 712
Scarron, Paul, account of, 119
Schurrman, Anna Maria, 123
Scorpion, 213
Sea, curiosities of the, 471
Sea, on the saltness of, 476
Sea, to measure the depth of the, 829
Sea serpent, American, 218
Seal, common account of, 180
Seal, ursine, 181
Seeds, germination of, 365
Sensibility of plants, 368
Sensitive plant, 369
Seraglio, 564
Serpents, fascinating power of, 219
Sexes, difference between the, 34
Sexes at birth, comparative number of the, 36
Shark, 198
Sheep, extraordinary adventures of one, 190
Shelton oak, description of, 382
Ship worm, 224
Ship at sea, to find the burden of a, 829
Shoes, curiosities respecting, 724
Shoe-makers, literary, 764
Shower of gossamers, curious phenomenon of a, 523
Shrovetide, 630
Silk-mill at Derby, 800
Silk stockings, electricity of, 842
Silkworm, 220
Singular curiosity, 405
Skiddaw, 414
Sleep-walker, 69
Sleeping woman of Dunninald, 70
Smeaton, John, 113
Sneezing, curious observations on, 33
Snow grotto, 451
Solfatara, the lake of, 488
Sound, experiments on, 840
Spectacle of a sea-fight at Rome, 711
Spectacles, a substitute for, 807
Spectre of the Broken, 420
Spider, curiosities of the, 314
Spider, tamed, 316
Spider, ingenuity of a, 316
Spider, curious anecdote of a, 318
Spirits of wine, to ascertain the strength of, 839
Spontaneous inflammations, 786
Sports, book of, 766
'Squire, old English, 925
Stalk, animated, 392
Star, falling or shooting, 401
Stephenson, the eccentric, 895
Steel, to melt, 830
Stick, to break a, on two wine-glasses, 871
Stone, the meteoric, 401
Stone, the Labrador, 402
Stone, the changeable, 404
Stone-eater, remarkable account of, 94
Stonehenge, 592
Storks, 229
Storm, singular effects of a, 519
Strasburg clock, 705
Sugar, antiquity of, 390
Sulphur mountains, 424
Sun, diminution of the, 673
Sun, spots in the, 671--to shew ditto, 852
Surgical operation, extraordinary, 791
Swine's concert, 750
Sword-swallowing, 62
Sympathetic inks, 853 to 857
T
Tallow-tree, 378
Tantalus' cup, 852
Tape-worm, 222
Tea, Chinese method of preparing, 388
Telegraph, 708
Temple of Tentira, in Egypt, 550
Tenures, curious, 628
Thermometrical experiments, 863
Thermometer, moral and physical, 817
Thread burnt, not broken, 844
Thunder powder, 836
Thunder rod, 654
Tides, 479
Titles of books, 755
Toad, common, description of, 161
Topham, Thomas, character of, 115
Tornado, description of a, 510
Torpedo, 200
Tortoise, the common, 176
Tree of Diana, 852
Trees, account of a country, in which the inhabitants reside in, 45
U
Unbeliever's creed, 776
Unfortunate artificer, 745
Unicorn, 179
Upas, or poison tree, 383
V
Valentine's-day, origin of, 632
Van Butchell, Mrs. preservation of her corpse, 902
Vegetable kingdom, curiosities in the, 363
Vegetables, number of known, 367
Vegetable fly, 341
Velocity of the wind, 517
Ventriloquism, 58
Vesuvius, 434, 947
Vicar of Bray, 748
Voltaic pile, to make a cheap, 847
Vulture, Egyptian, 228
Vulture, secretary, 228
W
Wasp, curiosities respecting the, 285
Watch, the mysterious, 835
Watches, invention of, 707
Water, to boil without heat, 835
Water, to weigh, 834
Water, to retain, in an inverted glass, 835
Waterspout, 663
Waves stilled by oil, 480
Weaving engine, 712
Whale, great northern, or Greenland, 204
Whale fishery, 208
Whig and Tory, explanation of the terms, 776
Whirlpool near Sudero, 489
Whirlwinds of Egypt, 509
Whispering places, and extraordinary echoes, 802
Whitehead's ship, 712
Whittington, Sir Richard, 932
Wild man, account of a, 76
Wind, velocity of, 517
Winds, remarkable, in Egypt, 507
Wine cellar, curious, 799
Winter in Russia, 524
Wolby, Henry, extraordinary character of, 105
Women with beards, curious account of, 32
Wooden eagle, and iron fly, 711
Writing, origin of the materials of, 751
Writing, minute, 753
X
Xerxes' bridge of boats over the Hellespont, 586
Z
Zeuxis, celebrated painter, 116.
INTRODUCTION.
"Ye curious minds, who roam abroad, And trace Creation's wonders o'er! Confess the footsteps of the God, And bow before him, and adore."
It was well observed by Lord Bacon, that "It would much conduce to the magnanimity and honour of man, if a collection were made of the extraordinaries of human nature, principally out of the reports of history; that is, what is the last and highest pitch to which man's nature, of itself, hath ever reached, in all the perfection of mind and body. If the wonders of human nature, and virtues as well of mind as of body, were collected into a volume, they might serve as a calendar of human triumphs."
The present work not only embraces the Curiosities of human nature, but of Nature and Art in general, as well as Science and Literature. Surrounded with wonders, and lost in admiration, the inquisitive mind of man is ever anxious to know the hidden springs that put these wonders in motion; he eagerly inquires for some one to take him by the hand, and explain to him the curiosities of the universe. And though the works of the Lord, like his nature and attributes, are great, and past finding out, and we cannot arrive at the perfection of science, nor discover the secret impulses which nature obeys, yet can we by reading, study, and investigation, dissipate much of the darkness in which we are enveloped, and dive far beyond the surface of this multifarious scene of things--The noblest employment of the human understanding is, to contemplate the works of the great Creator of the boundless universe; and to trace the marks of infinite wisdom, power, and goodness, throughout the whole. This is the foundation of all religious worship and obedience; and an essential preparative for properly understanding, and cordially receiving, the sublime discoveries and important truths of divine revelation. "Every man," says our Saviour, "that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me." And no man can come properly to Christ, or, in other words, embrace the christian religion, so as to form consistent views of it, and enter into its true spirit, unless he is thus drawn by the Father through a contemplation of his works. Such is the inseparable connection between nature and grace.
A considerable portion of the following pages is devoted to Curiosities in the works of Nature, or, more properly, the works of God, for,
"Nature is but an effect, and God the cause."
The Deity is the
"Father of all that is, or heard, or hears! Father of all that is, or seen, or sees! Father of all that is, or shall arise! Father of this immeasurable mass Of matter multiform; or dense, or rare; Opaque, or lucid; rapid, or at rest; Minute, or passing bound! In each extreme Of like amaze, and mystery, to man."
The invisible God is seen in all his works.
"God is a spirit, spirit cannot strike These gross material organs: God by man As much is seen, as man a God can see. In these astonishing exploits of power What order, beauty, motion, distance, size! Concertion of design, how exquisite! How complicate, in their divine police! Apt means! great ends! consent to general good!"