THE BRIDGEWATER TREATISES ON THE POWER WISDOM AND GOODNESS OF GOD AS MANIFESTED IN THE CREATION TREATISE II. ON THE ADAPTATION OF EXTERNAL NATURE TO THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF MAN BY J. KIDD, M. D. THOU MADEST HIM TO HAVE DOMINION OVER THE WORKS OF THY HANDS; THOU HAST PUT ALL THINGS UNDER HIS FEET. PSALM VIII. 6. ΤΟ HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. MY LORD, HAVING been appointed to write the following Treatise by the late President of the Royal Society, in consequence of your Grace's recommendation, it was natural that I should be desirous of publickly acknowledging the high honour thus conferred upon me. I therefore request you to accept my respectful thanks for permitting me to inscribe this Treatise with your Grace's name: assuring you that, however inadequately I may have been found to answer your expectation in the |