f AUL AND VIRGINIA. I43 



Paul. 

 '* How ! the art which fupplies man with food, 

 ** defpifed in Europe I I do not underftand you." 



The Old Man. 

 ** Oh ! it is impoflible for a man educated in a 

 ** ftate of Nature, to comprehend the depravity of 

 ** a ftate of Society. Though fuch a one is able 

 *' to form, in his own mind, an exad: idea of or- 

 *' der, he cannot form one of diforder. Beauty, 

 " virtue, and happinefs, have proportions; defor- 

 ** mity, vice, and mifery, have none." 



Paul. 

 *' The rich, then, are very happy; no obftacles 

 *' lie in their way ; and on the objeds of their love, 

 " they can beftow pleafures without end." 



The Old Man. 

 *' They are, for the moft parr, infenfibie to any 

 *' pleafure, becaufe the attainment of it cofts them 

 *' no trouble. Does not experience teach you, that 

 *' the enjoyment of repofe is purchafed by fatigue; 

 " that of eating, by hunger ; that of drinking, by 

 ** thirft ? In like manner, that of loving, and of 

 " being beloved, is only to be obtained by a mul- 

 *^ titude of privations and facrifices. Their wealth 

 ** deprives rich people of all thefe pleafures, by 



" outrunning 



