l8 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



ever, nor plant, nor foflil, nor even "globe, but 

 what has it's confonance and it's contrail out of 

 itfelf, Man excepted. No one vifible being enters 

 into fociety with him, but either as his fervant or 

 as his Have. 



We rnult, undoubtedly, reckon, among the hu- 

 man proportions, that Law fo univerfal, and fo 

 wonderful, which produces males and females in 

 equal numbers. Did chance prefide over the ge- 

 neration of the human race, as over our alliances, 

 we mould one year have an unmixed crop of male 

 children, and another, a race entirely female. 

 Some nations would confift wholly of men, and 

 others, wholly of women ; but all over the Globe, 

 the two fexes are born, within the fame fpace of 

 time, equal in number. A confonance fo regular, 

 clearly demonftrates, that a Providence is conti- 

 nually watching over the affairs of Mankind, not- 

 withstanding the abfurdity and diforder of human 

 inftitutions. This may be considered as a Standing 

 testimony to the truth of our Religion, which, 

 likewife, limits Man to one Woman in marriage, 

 and by this conformity to natural Laws, peculiar 

 to itfelf, feems alone to have emanated from the 

 Author of Nature. It may fairly be concluded, 

 on the contrary, that a religion which permits, or 

 connives at, a plurality of wives, mud be erro- 

 neous. 



Ah! 



