62 food, and in cold climates warms the houses in the months of winter. Without fire, we could have no candies, lamps, nor torches; and we should be without light, as well as without warmth and heat. {}}A].OGUE V. Of Man.
Pup. What am I to consider as time nobiest work of Gud in the world ? Tut. Intelligent beings, such as inen. Man is the noblest creature on earth. For God inade hun the lord of this lower world. He exceeds other creatures in the beauty of his countenance, in the faculty of speech, in his erect posttire, and as having a rational soul. For God has taught man more than the beasts of the earth, and made him wiser that the fowls of heaver. . * Pup. Will you be so kind as to give me soine information concerning the humain body ? Tuf. The must striking part of the human body is the face; and one peculiar proof of divine wisdom is, that every human face should be so readily distinguished from another, else the innocent might sometimes suffer for the guilty. Pup. That I never before attended to. Pray why is the head formed of a harder substance than the rest of the body ? Tut. That so tender a part as the brain, the seat of reason, may be securely preserved. -
