The works of Thomas Dick . bundance of food, by means of the rains anddews; all which effects produce happiness in athousand different ways to every sentient this atmosphere presses our bodies with avireight of thirty thousand pounds, it is in order tocnmiterpoise the internal pressure of the circu-lating fluids, and to preserve the vessels andanimal functions in due tone and vigour, withoutwhich pressure the elastic fluids in the finer ves-sels would inevitably burst them, and the sparkof life be quickly extinguished. Thousands ofexamples of this description, illustrative of divinebe
The works of Thomas Dick . bundance of food, by means of the rains anddews; all which effects produce happiness in athousand different ways to every sentient this atmosphere presses our bodies with avireight of thirty thousand pounds, it is in order tocnmiterpoise the internal pressure of the circu-lating fluids, and to preserve the vessels andanimal functions in due tone and vigour, withoutwhich pressure the elastic fluids in the finer ves-sels would inevitably burst them, and the sparkof life be quickly extinguished. Thousands ofexamples of this description, illustrative of divinebenevolence, might be selected from every partof the material system connected with our world,all ofwhich would demonstrate that the commu-nication of enjoyment is the great end of all thecontrivances of infinite wisdom. • As an evidence of the care of the Creator to pro-mote our enjoyment, the foUoviing Instance may beselected in regard to the mMsdesoftheeye. Nothmgran be more manifeBtly an evidence of contrivance Fig. There is a strildng display of benevolence b)ihe griui/lcation afforded to aur different the eye is constructed of the most delicatesubstances, and is one of the most admirablepieces of mechanism connected with our frame,so the Creator has arranged the world in such amanner as to afford it the most varied and de-lightful gratification. By means of the solarlight, which is exactly adapted to the structureof this organ, thousands of objects of diversifiedbeauty and sublimity are presented to the opens before us the mountains, the vales, thewoods, the lawns, the brooks and rivers, the fer-tile plains and flowery fields, adorned with everyhue,—the expanse of the ocean and the gloriesof the firmament. And as the eye would bedazzled, were a deep red colour or a brilliantwhite to be spread over the face of nature, thedivine goodness has clothed the heavens withblue and the earth with green, the two colourswhich are the least fatiguing and the mo
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