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I ti instances in which the eve or the head of the animal has no motion , there is always some remedy for the inconvenience : in some such cases the eyes * are set almost out of the head , thus enabling the creature to have an extensive view , without turning
himself to obtain it . In those creature * whose eyes are without motion , as in many insects , they either have more than two eyes , or their eyes are nearly protuberant hemispheres , and each hemisphere often
consisting of a great number of other little ( segments of a sphere . The eyes of spiders , of which in some species , there Are four , in others six , and in some eight , are placed in the fore psrt of the liead like a locket of diamonds .
The number of eyes granted to this animal is to supply the deficiency of a neck , which nature has not granted to it . Besides , spiders live by catching their prey , as flies , they ought therefore , to see every way , without any ?
motion oithe head to discover them , otherwise their prey would easily be warned of their danger and escape . Snails serud out their eyes at a distance , being contained in , or rather at the ends of'their
horns-Another admirable provision in the eye is its tuze ; in some animals it is Little , in so me larsre . The mole has been refercd to , as an instance in which the wisdom of the Creator is displayed , in ad apting the organ of sight to its habita tion and its wants . Its
dwelling beii \ g wholly subterraneous , the eye is ext remely small , but it answers all its occasions , and at the same time , l > y its diminutive size , many inconvc uiencies are prevented ; for as little lu * ht will suffice an animal living always under ground , the smallest eye almost will be sufficient for its wants , iivnd as a large protuberant eye , like that of other animals , would much annoy this creature in operations uude r ground , so it is endowed with a small one commodiously situated ii i the head , and well fenced to prose r ve it from dangers of every kind ( . To be continued . )
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any tenets whatever , in opposition to reason and to common sense . The great aim of scriptural knowledge is to clear the truth from that load of rubbish , with which in the track of ages it hath been in a great measure overwhelmed , through the continued decline of piety and good sense , and through the increase of barbarism , and the gradual introduction ofamonstrous species of superstition , a heterogeneous and motley mixture of something of the form of Christianity ( whose
name it dishonoured ) with the beggarly elements of the Jews , and the idolatrous fopperies of the Pagans , whence hath resulted a general character of more inveterate malignity , than either Judaism or Paganism of any form ever manifested . And
notwithstanding the inestimable advantages which we derive from the Reformation and the revival of letters in Europe , we hnve reason still to talk of the state of religion in our day , and the tincture it retains of Romish
corruption and the Romish spirit , in much the same way as Horace did of tlie state of civilization in his , In loiigfum tamen ecvum Manseruut , hodieque manent vestigia Ro-\ rn ( K [ Campbell ' s Lectures on Theology . ]
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104 Natural Theology . No . II . —The Eye . —Gleanings . »
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No CCVII . How to become Learned . Brassicanus rogavit Erasmum , qua ratione doctus posset fieri .
Ilespondit ex tempore ; Si doctis assidue conviveret ; si doctos audiret non minus submisse quani honorifice ; si doctos streuue legeret ; si doctos diligenter edisceret 3 denique , si se doctiim
nunqumn putaret . Centur . Epist . Goldasti . Ep . 44 , p . I 69 .
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No . CCVIII . Seamless Robe of Christ . Christians ( says Dr Geddes ) began very early to judaize , and in sonic respects to paganize also . The time will come when all such trappinp will be torn from the seamless robe of Christ ,
without injuring its original texture . The same figure occurs in the Form of Tfianksaivinq for the Victory in ™( i North , published by his Majesty s
( Char . I . ) command , " l 64 S ; -- " A > rd look to the righteousness of our cinsc See the seamless coat of thy Son torn * : the throne of thine anointed tramp s
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CiLEANINCJS ; O A , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IM A COURSE OF OtNEUAL HEAPING . N ( > . CCVI . Reformc ition incomplete . No prescript jou can be pleaded for
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1815, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1757/page/40/
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