If The Finding Of Coines, Medals, Urnes, And Other Monuments Of Famous Persons, Or Towns, Or Utensils, Be Admitted For Unquestionable Proofs, That Such Persons Or Things Have, In Former Times, Had A Being, Certainly Those Petrifactions May Be Allowed To Be Of Equal Validity And Evidence, That There Have Been Formerly Such Vegetables Or Animals. These Are Truly Authentick Antiquity Not To Be Counterfeited, The Stamps, And Impressions, And Characters Of Nature That Are Beyond The Reach And Power Of Humane Wit And Invention, And Are True Universal Characters Legible To All Rational Men. - SearchQuotes

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If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons or things have, in former Times, had a being, certainly those Petrifactions may be allowed to be of equal Validity and Evidence, that there have been formerly such Vegetables or Animals. These are truly Authentick Antiquity not to be counterfeited, the Stamps, and Impressions, and Characters of Nature that are beyond the Reach and Power of Humane Wit and Invention, and are true universal Characters legible to all rational Men.

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