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EtJLOGITJM OF SANDEL. 31
He took particular notice, in this immense machine, of everything that can be
explained on mathematical principles. He doubted not that the Supreme Cre-
ator had arranged the whole, even to the most imperceptible parts, in the most
entire harmony and the most complete mutual agreement : and this agreement,
as a mathematical philosopher, he endeavored to develope, by dravi^ing conclu-
sions from the smallest parts to the greatest, from that which is visible before
our eyes to that which is scarcely discoverable even by the aid of optical glasses.
He thus formed to himself a system founded upon a certain species of mecha-
nism, and supported by reasoning—a system, the arrangement of which is so
solid, and the composition so serious, that it claims and merits all the attention
of the learned : as for others, they may do better not to meddle with it. Accord-
ing to this system, he explains all that the most certain facts and the soundest
reasoning can offer to our meditations. If we dare not adopt the whole, there
are at least many excellent things in it which we may apply to our use. But he
went further : he wished to combine this system with religion ; and to this ob-
ject he almost entirely devoted himself from the time of the publication of his
Opera Philosophica et Mineralia.
He passed the greater part of his latter years in foreign countries, to which,
after the year 1736, he made eight different journeys; either to England, or Hol-
land, or France, or Italy. He commenced with the latter countries : his travels
in which lasted till 1740. His principal object in these journeys was the print-
ing of his new works.
I cannot help admiring the great fertility of his pen ; for besides the numerous
productions, and especially the great work, of which we have spoken already,
he w^as the author of the following :
—
1. Prodromus Philosophic Ratiocinantis de Injinito, de Causa Finali Creationis, et de
Mechanismo Operationis Anirruz et Corporis. Printed at Dresden, in 1734.
2. CEconomia Regni Animalis. Printed at Amsterdam, in two parts; the first in
1740, and the second in 1741.
3. Regnum Animale. In three parts ; two of which were printed at the Hague,
in 1744, and the third at London, in 1745.
4. Be Cidtu et Amore Dei. In two parts, London, 1745.*
* The following would be the title of these four works in English :
—
1. A Prodromus to a proposed work, to be called, Philosophy reasoning on the Infinite, on
the Final Cause of Creation, and on the Mechanism of the Operation of the Soul and
Body. The work itself was never published under that title ; but those which fol-
low treat of the proposed subjects.
2. The Economy of the Animal Kingdom.
3. The Animal Kingdom.
4. On the Worship and Love of God.
Though M. Sandel has numbered the above with the author’s theological writings,
Ihey do not in reality, belong to that class, though the subjects of some of them are
closely connected with theology. The philosophical views they develope are mostly in
harmony with those of his theological works ; and their theological sentiments also are
seldom at variance with those of the latter, though they occasionally evince the absence
of that superior illumination which he afterwards enjoyed. His particular illumination
is stated to have commenced in 1743 ; if it did, the two latter of the above works were
printed, and, most probably, were written, afterwards : but as their whole style and
character differ widely from those of his theological works, there seems some reason to
doubt whether the date of his specific illumination should not, instead of 1743, be 1745.
Whilst, also, all his theological works abound with references to each other, they do not
contain a single reference to the above or to any other of his publications, except once
in the Index to the Arcana Calestiat where, under the word Caim, there is a reference
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