Copy 1, Volume 1
A history of the earth, and animated nature / By Oliver Goldsmith.
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Date:
- 1826
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A history of the earth, and animated nature / By Oliver Goldsmith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![~* Thad 7 ON et ee Se ~ Ve \ “= all ne ; i ‘ _ Mee ‘ % while the dinins itself, stretching inte another world, ean shall. impart. ‘In the structure and. organs of gibt opin there is an” adaptation for certain ends which the most superficial ob-. server can hardly fail to. observe. _ Adaptation implies design, and this involves some being or power capable of forming the design, and calculating upon issues, which no combina- _ The evidences of wisdom which are scattered over the surface of our globe, speak in.a language that must be heard even by the most careless and inattentive; and the animal world presents us with a noble compendium of facts, that are con- stantly exposed to the scrutiny of every eye. Of these, Dr. Goldsmith’ has furnished a grand exhibition; and the con- dition of that reader is not to be envied, aha: after perusing ~ his Natural History, can close his book, and deliberately think there is no God.” ] A _ END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. » .Printed..by,Henry Fisher,.at the Caxton. Press, London. — Pee ae rs. ants](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33289220_0001_0436.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
