Animal mechanics / by Sir Charles Bell ... and Jeffries Wyman.

  • Charles Bell
Date:
1902
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Credit: Animal mechanics / by Sir Charles Bell ... and Jeffries Wyman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER VII BOOKS Ray, “ On the Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation,” has several chapters on the animal economy. Archdeacon Paley has composed a work of high interest, by taking the common anatomical demonstrations, and presenting them in an ele- gant and popular form. His work is entitled, Natural Theology ; or, Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, collected from the Appearances of Nature. The celebrated Fenelon has, with the same pious object, composed a small duodecimo, in which he draws his arguments from the structure of animal bodies. Wollaston, in the “ Religion of Nature Deline- ated,” has the same train of reflection to prove that there can be no such thing as chance oper- ating in and about what we see or feel; and he says, with great propriety, “ How may a man qualify himself so as to be able to judge of the religions professed in the world; to settle his own opinions in disputable matters; and then to enjoy tranquillity of mind, neither disturbing oth- ers, nor being disturbed at what passes among them ? ”