OR EVIDENCES OF THE EXISTENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF THE DEITY, COLLECTED FROM THE APPEARANCES OF NATURE, BY WILLIAM PALEY, D. D. ILLUSTRATED BY A SERIES OF PLATES, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES, BY JAMES PAXTON, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS, LONDON. VOL. II. SECOND EDITION. OXFORD: PUBLISHED BY J. VINCENT. MDCCCXXVIII. 181 P3 1828 2 NATURAL THEOLOGY. CHAPTER XIII. PECULIAR ORGANIZATIONS. I BELIEVE that all the instances which I shall collect under this title, might, consistently enough with technical language, have been placed under the head of Comparative Anatomy. But there appears to me an impropriety in the use which that term hath obtained: it being, in some sort, absurd to call that a case of comparative anatomy, in which there is nothing to "compare ;" in which a conformation is found in one animal, which hath nothing properly answering to it in another. this kind are the examples which I have to propose in the present chapter: and the reader will see that, though some of them be the strongest, perhaps, he will meet with under any division of our subject, they must necessarily be of an unconnected and miscellaneous nature. To dispose them, however, into some sort of order, we will notice first, particularities of structure which be Of |