By fowl, fish, beast

Was flown, was swum, was walked

And nothing needful

To the end remained

But man himself!

The end of all yet done.

The master-work there wanted

Yet: a creature

Who not prone and brute

As other creatures; but erect, With sanctity of mind endued Himself selfknowing how to rule And rule the rest.

Thus man was formed

Of earth, miraculous,

Of earth! upright

With front serene

Magnanimous, to correspond

With heaven! for such

The Almighty Will

And such the Omnific

Word creative

Formed man!

CHAPTER VII.

To no end alone

Man he created

Male: for race

So formed

Incompetent alone!

Without his consort
Eve, incompetent !

-Male and female

Formed he them

For race of men

Innumerable

To know and worship

God supreme!

Themselves in social bond

Consorted

To fulfil the law:

Each to each

Assigned

Coeval-in the great

Design of life

Coequal, and either

To no end alone.

CHAPTER VIII.

THEN Adam formed for race; from the beginning formed ? But if no race can be had independently of woman?

Then woman formed from the beginning; coeval formed with man co-equal in the great design of life'; as either to no end alone.

CHAPTER IX.

BUT if man were created perfect to that end?

But if woman were created perfect to that end?

But perfect only as parts of a to be combined perfection?

INDIVIDUAL

CHAPTER X.

NDIVIDUALLY perfect as parts of a to be combined perfection; perfect as parts, but perfectly coinciding.

But if nothing can be had under any imperfection.

But if man is subject to much imperfection.

But if the human race hath been transmitted, notwithstanding,

for ages.

Then, by what wonderful providence formed? by what wonderful providence subsisted?

CHAPTER XI.

BUT if man again is subject to much imperfection.

But if no race can be had under any imperfection.

Then it were possible, under a general predominance of vice, for the human race to determine.

CHAPTER XII.

THEN

HEN were imperfection to prevail, the human race might determine?

Might possibly determine? Yes!

For if the perfection, or existence, of human being is in an order of things

To deviate from that order, is to run into disorder

And the tendency of disorder is to dissolution and death.

CHAPTER XIII.

BUT Man is naturally subject to death :

Necessarily subject to death, that the human race may be prolonged in life

For that procreation might continue without death; new worlds would be wanting for the sustentation of life.

CHAPTER XIV.

THEN Death is in the order of things; intended from the beginning, as necessary in the original plan of life; necessary, as room is necessary to human occupation; as food is necessary to life.

But if any thing is necessary to life; death must be in the natural order of things; or nothing would be necessary to life.

CHAPTER XV.

BUT the wonder of thinking men is, how life, under so many ficulties, for so many ages, can have been preserved.

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CHAPTER XVI.

DEATH, therefore, a necessary condition of human life; necessary to the prorogation of human life upon earth; necessary, as the order of procreation is necessary to continue the human race upon earth.

Not adventitious, as hath been weakly supposed; not a creature of sin, although by sin accelerated; but in the order of nature, so designed from the beginning; the common lot of man; or good, or bad, the common lot of all.