12/18 Throw several pieces of steel together, without shape or form; they will never arrange themselves so as to compose a watch. Stone, and mortar, and wood, without an architect, never erect a house. But the ideas in a human mind, we see, by an unknown, inexplicable economy, arrange themselves so as to form the plan of a watch or house. From similar effects we infer similar causes. The adjustment of means to ends is alike in the universe, as in a machine of human contrivance. |