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and Management."

A God so careful as to make provision even for the unmistakable signing
of bank checks and deeds was a deity truly after the heart of
eighteenth century Anglicanism.

I subjoin, omitting the capitals, Derham's "Vindication of God by the
Institution of Hills and Valleys," and Wolff's altogether culinary
account of the institution of Water:--

"The uses," says Wolff, "which water serves in human life are plain to
see and need not be described at length. Water is a universal drink of
man and beasts. Even though men have made themselves drinks that are
artificial, they could not do this without water. Beer is brewed of
water and malt, and it is the water in it which quenches thirst. Wine
is prepared from grapes, which could never have grown without the help
of water; and the same is true of those drinks which in England and
other places they produce from fruit.... Therefore since God so planned
the world that men and beasts should live upon it and find there
everything required for their necessity and convenience, he also made
water as one means whereby to make the earth into so excellent a
dwelling. And this is all the more manifest when we consider the
advantages which we obtain from this same water for the cleaning of our
household utensils, of our clothing, and of other matters.... When one
goes into a grinding-mill one sees that the grindstone must always be
kept wet and then one will get a still greater idea of the use of
water."

Of the hills and valleys, Derham, after praising their beauty,
discourses as follows: "Some constitutions are indeed of so happy a
strength, and so confirmed an health, as to be indifferent to almost
any place or temperature of the air. But then others are so weakly and
feeble, as not to be able to bear one, but can live comfortably in
another place. With some the more subtle and finer air of the hills
doth best agree, who are languishing and dying in the feculent and
grosser air of great towns, or even the warmer and vaporous air of the
valleys and waters. But contrariwise, others languish on the hills,
and grow lusty and strong in the warmer air of the valleys.

"So that this opportunity of shifting our abode from the hills to the
vales, is an admirable easement, refreshment, and great benefit to the
valetudinarian, feeble part of mankind; affording those an easy and
comfortable life, who would otherwise live miserably, languish, and
pine away.

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