so slight a resemblance? The oeconomy of final causes? The order, proportion, and arrange|ment of every part? Steps of a stair are plainly contrived, that human legs may use them in mounting; and this inference is certain and in|fallible. Human legs are also contrived for walk|ing and mounting; and this inference, I allow, is not altogether so certain, because of the dissimi|larity which you remark; but does it, therefore, deserve the name only of presumption or con|jecture?Good God! cried DEMEA, interrupting him, where are we? Zealous defenders of religion al|low, that the proofs of a Deity fall short of perfect evidence! And you, PHILO, on whose assistance I depended, in proving the adorable mysteriousness of the Divine Nature, do you assent to all these extravagant opinions of CLEANTHES? For what other name can I give them? Or why spare my censure, when such principles are ad|vanced, supported by such an authority, before so young a man as PAMPHILUS?You seem not to apprehend, replied PHILO, that I argue with CLEANTHES in his own way; and by showing him the dangerous consequences of his tenets, hope at last to reduce him to our opinion. But what sticks most with you, I ob|serve, is the representation which CLEANTHES has made of the argument a posteriori; and finding, that that argument is likely to escape your hold and vanish into air, you think it so disguised, 0