degree. But to such as find, which some persons do find, an insuperable difficulty in shaking off an adherence to those analogies which the corporeal world is continually suggesting to their thoughts; to such, I say, every consideration will be a relief. which manifests the extent of that intelligent power which is acting in nature, the fruitfulness of its resources, the variety, and aptness, and success of its means; most especially every consideration which tends to show, that, in the translation of a conscious existence, there is not, even in their own way of regarding it, any thing greatly beyond, or totally unlike, what takes place in such parts (probably small parts) of the order of nature, as are accessible to our observation. Again; if there be those who think, that the contractedness and debility of the human faculties in our present state, seem ill to accord with the high destinies which the expectations of religion point out to us, I would only ask them, whether any one, who saw a child two hours after its birth, could suppose that it would ever come to understand fluxions? or who then shall say, what farther amplification of intellectual powers, what accession of knowledge, what advance and improvement, the rational faculty, be its constitution what it will, may not admit of, when placed amidst new objects, and endowed with a senso * See Search's Light of Nature, passim. 229 rium adapted, as it undoubtedly will be, and as our present senses are, to the perception of those substances, and of those properties of things, with which our concern may lie. Upon the whole; in every thing which respects this awful, but, as we trust, glorious change, we have a wise and powerful Being (the author, in nature, of infinitely various expedients, for infinitely various ends) upon whom to rely for the choice and appointment of means, adequate to the execution of any plan which his goodness or his justice may have formed, for the moral and accountable part of his terrestrial creation. That great office rests with him: be it ours to hope and to prepare, under a firm and settled persuasion, that, living and dying, we are his; that life is passed in his constant presence, that death resigns us to his merciful disposal. INDEX TO THE PLATES. VOL. I. Tab. 1. Parts of a watch Tab. 2. Lens of a fish-Humours of the eye-Image formed on the retina-Lens of a telescope-Crystalline lens— Iris and straight muscles of the eye PAGE 2 17 Tab. 3. Bony rim in the eye of birds-Marsupium and eye of the eel..... 28 Tab. 4. Lachrymal gland and duct-Nictitating membrane and its muscles 33 Tab. 5. The anatomy of the human ear, and the tympanum of the elephant ..... ......... 40 Tab. 6. The trochlear muscle of the eye, and section of Tab. 9. The human spine, and vertebræ of the serpent...... 90 Tab. 10. The thorax-Patella, and scapula ... 100 Tab. 11. The hip joint-Knee, interarticular cartilages, and ankle joint ...... 106 Tab 12. Sartorius muscle, and oblique muscles of the head 118 Tab. 13. The muscles of the arm ..... 120 Tab. 14. Muscles of the eye-lid, and sphincters ......... 125 Tab. 16. Flexors of the toes and ligaments, across the instep 137 Tab. 17. The heart and its valves 146 Tab. 18. The stomach, liver, gall bladder, &c. ............... 157 Tab. 19. The lacteals and thoracic duct, shewing the course of the food..... Tab. 20. The parotid gland and its duct ....... 159 169 Tab. 21. The larynx, trachea, œsophagus, &c. 170 Tab. 22. Package of the viscera, and mesentery .... 181 PAGE Tab. 23. Nerves in the bill of the duck-Valvulæ conniventes-Air-bladder of a fish, and fang of a viper 212 ... 232 Tab. 24. The opossum and its young, and the pelvis goose 233 Tab. 26. Stomach of the camel 234 Tab. 27. Tongue of the woodpecker, and skull of the babyrouessa ..... 235 Tab. 28. Temporary and permanent teeth 238 Tab. 29. Foramen ovale, and ductus arteriosus in the foetal heart 244 Tab. 30. The eye of a chameleon, and the intestine of the sea-fox ..... 263 VOL. II. 27 Tab. 31. The elytra of the scarabæus auratus-Awl of the œstrum bovis-Sting and proboscis of the bee-Proboscis of the butterfly ...... Tab. 32. The seed vessel of the poppy-Stamina and pistil Tab. 33. The vallisneria spiralis Tab. 36. Dionaea muscipula Tab. 37. Astronomy LARTLETT AND HINTON, PRINTERS, OXFORD. |