But the animal mechanism, even were it as perfect as you pretend, and as I daresay it is--what has it in common with a Being of sovereign intelligence?
If it fills you with astonishment, that is perhaps because you are in the habit of treating as a prodigy anything that strikes you as being beyond your own strength.

I have been myself so often an object of admiration for you, that I have a poor opinion of what surprises you.

I have attracted people from all parts of England, who could not conceive by what means I could work at geometry.

Well, you must agree that such persons had not very exact notions about the possibility of things.

Is a phenomenon in our notions beyond the power of man?
Then we instantly say--_'Tis the handiwork of a God_.