Discourses upon the Existence and Attributes of God

1. In the order, fitness and usefulness of every part. The whole model of the body is grounded upon reason. Every member hath its exact proportion, distinct office, regular motion. Every part hath a particular comeliness, and convenient temperament bestowed upon it, according to its place in the Body. The Heart is hot to enliven the whole. The Eye clear to take in objects to present them to the Soul: Every member is fitted for its peculiar service and action: Some are for sense, some for motion, some for preparing, and others for dispensing nourishment to the several parts: They mutually depend upon, and serve one another. What small strings fasten the particular members together, as the Earth that hangs upon nothing? ^*Take but one part away, and you either destroy the whole, or stamp upon it some mark of deformity. All are knit together by an admirable Symmetry; all orderly perform their functions, as acting by a settled Law; none swerving from their rule, but in case of some predominant humour: And none of those in so great a multitude of parts, stifled in so little a Room, or jostling against one another to hinder their mutual actions; none can be better disposed. And the greatest wisdom of man could not imagine it, till his eyes present them with the sight and connection of one part and member with another.

1. In the order, fitness and usefulness of every part. The whole model of the body is grounded upon reason. Every member hath its exact proportion, distinct office, regular motion. Every part hath a particular comliness, and convenient temperament bestowed upon it, according to its place in the Body. The Heart is hot to enliven the whole. The Eye clear to take in objects to present them to the Soul: Every member is fitted for its peculiar service and action: Some are for sense, some for motion, some for preparing, and others for dispensing nourishment to the several parts: They mutually depend upon, and serve one another. What small strings fasten the particular members together, as the Earth that hangs upon nothing? ^*Take but one part away, and you either destroy the whole, or stamp upon it some mark of deformity. All are knit together by an admirable Symmetry; all orderly perform their functions, as acting by a setled Law; none swerving from their rule, but in case of some predominant humor: And none of those in so great a multitude of parts, stifled in so little a Room, or justling against one another to hinder their mutual actions; none can be better disposed. And the greatest wisdom of man could not imagine it, till his eyes present them with the sight and connexion of one part and member with another.