STUDY XII. 4O7 



fure, the powers of the underfhinding, by pro- 

 ducing a fpecies of intoxication in the nerves of 

 the brain. Levy tells us, that the Brafilians frnoke 

 tobacco till it makes them drunk. It is to be 

 obferved, that thofe nations have found out the 

 mod cephalic plant of the whole vegetable king- 

 dom, and that the ufe of it is the mod univerfally 

 diffuftd of all thofe which exift on the Globe, the 

 vine and the corn-plants not excepted. 1 have 

 {een it cultivated in Finland, beyond Viburg, in 

 about the fixty firft degree of North Latitude. 

 The habit of ufing it becomes fo powerful, that a 

 perfon who has acquired it, will rather forego 

 bread, fora day, than his tobacco. This plant is, 

 neverthelefs, a real poifon ; it affects, at length, the 

 olfactory nerves, and fometirnes the fight. But 

 Man is ever difpofed to impair his phyfical con- 

 ftitution, provided he can Strengthen in himfelf 

 the intellectual fentiment. : 



Of the Se rife of Seeing. 



Every thing that has been faid, in detailing cer- 

 tain general Laws of Nature, harmonies, confor- 

 mities, contrafts, and oppositions, refers princi- 

 pally to the (enfe of feeing. I do not fpeak of 

 adaptation, or correfpondence ; for this belongs to 

 the fentiment of reafon, and is entirely distinct 

 from matter. The other relations are, in truth, 

 d d 4 founded 



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