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CHARLES BONNET, F.R.S.

Lublishd as the Act directs, Oct.1.1787, by I. Stockdale Piccadilly.

PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY;

AND CHARLES DILLY, POULTRY.

M.DCC.XCI.

PREFACE

OF THE

TRANSLATOR.

MR. Charles Bonnet, of Geneva, from

whofe works I have felected and

tranflated this volume, is not of the Clerical profeffion, but is a gentleman of independant fortune. He is held in the highest esteem, in the literary world, as a metaphyfician, philofopher, and explorer of nature. His deep views, and the lights he has thrown on various fubjects, give him an undoubted claim to the reputation be enjoys (a).

The

(a) A complete and new edition of Mr. Bonnet's works was published in 1779, at Neufchatel, in 10 vols. 4to. and 18 vols. 8vo.-The contents of the 8vo. edition are as follows:

The prefent work reprefents Christianity in a philofophical point of view, which cannot but deeply imprefs every mind difpofed to medita

tion.

In this fceptical and paradoxical age; an oftentatious difplay of erudition-every alluring and fafcinating grace of style-every Specious argument, calculated to mifguide the unwary -have been employed to undermine our holy religion. It must therefore be a fource of infinite fatisfaction, to those who fincerely fearch after truth, to fee the man of genius, the man of learning and deep reflection, ftand forth to.

Inquiries concerning the ufe of Leaves I
Confiderations on Organized Bodies

Contemplations of Nature

Writings on Natural History

Letters on various Subjects of Natural
Hiftory

Analytical Effay on the Faculties of the
Soul

Effay on Pfychology

Philofophical Palingenefis

Miscellaneous

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