402 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



You will then perceive, in the human figure, 

 touches far beyond the reach of the chifels of 

 Greece, and the pencil of a Van Dyk. The feli- 

 city of an unfortunate young woman will coll you 

 much le(s than the ftatue of Ariadne: and inftead 

 of giving celebrity to the name of an artift in your 

 hotel, for a few years, this will immortalize your 

 own, and caufe it to laft, long after you are gone 

 from hence, every time (lie fays to her companions 

 and to her children : " It was a God, who came to 

 " fuccour me in the day of my diftrefs." 



We now proceed to trace the inftinct of Divi- 

 nity in our phyfical fenfations, and fhall conclude 

 this Study, by the fentiments of the foul which are 

 purely intellectual. Thus we fhall attempt to con- 

 vey a faint idea of the nature of Man. 



OF PHYSICAL SENSATIONS. 



All the phyfical fenfations are, in themfelves, f<$ 

 many teftimonies cf our mifeiy. If Man isfofenfible 

 to the pleafure of the touch, it is becaufe he is nak- 

 ed all his body over. He is under the neceifitv, in 

 order to clothe himfelf, of dripping the quadruped, 

 the plant, and the worm. If almoft all vegetables 

 and animals are laid under contribution to fupply 

 him with food, it is becaufe he is obliged to em- 



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