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The HISTORY Chap. I.
they were forced to exchange fair Eden's garden for
an uncultivated world, which produced nothing
but what was the effect of toilfome labour ; and
where they had no other prolpedf than a fad vari¬
ety of forrow, care, and trouble.
Even in this Rate, however impaired, we can¬
not, in any wife, fuppofe man to be ignorant of
the liberal fciences, much lefs of Geometry. For,
ever fince the fall, we find the principles of it in
the hearts of his offspring, who thereby are enabled
to trace the ■wifdom, Jlrcngth, and beauty difplaycd
in all the wondrous works of creation ; and thence,
with adoration, refled: them to their almighty and
ineffable origin. And that though, after his ex-
pulfion from Eden, he and his pofierity were en¬
tirely taken up in the invention and making of
what might be ufeful to fence them from the in¬
clemency of the weather, and the brutal world,
now at perpetual war with them ; yet, under thefe
terrible circumftances, we muff perceive, that, of
all fublunary beings, man is the moft adapted to
Society, has the feeds of juftice, kindnefs, and be¬
nignity, (which are the finews of concord and bro¬
therly love), born with him, and implanted in his
breaft; that he has the gift of fpeech, whereby
he can exprefs his thoughts, impart his mirth, for-
rows, and fecrets ; communicate his counfels, and
participate in compads beneficial to himfelf and his
fellow-creatures : and happy fiill in this, that God
had not withdrawn from him his knowledge of
Geometry,