Show WORKS OF A WATCH all the paris arc are bat the expression of on one e idea to td one who has never studied the mechanism of a watch its mainspring or the balance wheel Is a mere piece of metal he ile may haye have looked at the face of the watch and while he be admires the motions of its hands and the time it keeps he lie may have wondered in idle amazement as to th tiles character of the machinery which is concealed within take it to pieces and show him each part separately and he will recognize neither design nor adaptation nor relation between them but put them together set them to work point out the offices of each spring wheel and cog explain their movements and then show him the result now he perceives that it is all one ope design that notwithstanding the number of parts their diverse forms and various offices and the agents concerned the whole piece Is of one idea he ile now rightly concludes that when the mainspring was fashioned and tempered its relation to all the other parts must have been considered that the cogs on aps this wheel are cut and regulated adapted to the ratchets on that etc and his final conclusion will be that such a piece of mechanism could not have been produced by chance for the adaptation of the parts is such as to show it to be according to design and obedient to the will of one intelligence |