STUDY XII. 4O3, 



£>loy a great deal of cookery, and many combina- 

 tions, in preparing his aliments. Nature has treated 

 him with much fe verity ; for he is the only one of 

 animals, for the wants of which (he has made no 

 immediate provifion. Our .philofophers have not 

 fufflciently reflected on this perplexing diflinction. 

 How ! a worm provided with it's auger or it's file; 

 he enters into life in the midft of a profufion of 

 fruit proper for his fubfiftence ; he, by and by, 

 finds in himfelf the means of fpinning and weaving 

 his own garment ; after that, he transforms himfelf 

 into a gaudy butterfly, who ranges uncontroled, 

 abandoning himfelf to all the delights of love, and 

 re- perpetuating his fpecies without anxiety, and 

 without remorfej whereas the fon of a King is 

 born completely naked, amidft tears and groans, 

 (landing in need, all his life long, of the affiftance 

 of another, under the neceflity of maintaining an 

 unremitting conflict with his own fpecies, from 

 within, or from without, and frequently finding 

 in himfelf his mod formidable enemy ! Of a truth, 

 unlefs we are all the children of duft, it would be 

 a thoufand times better to enter upon existence 

 under the form of an infect, than under that of an 

 Emperor. But Man has been abandoned to the 

 mod abject mifery, only that he may have uninter- 

 rupted recourfe to the fir ft of Powers. 



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