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fuch places, are/urnifhed with hair long, ftiff, and 

 briftly, which keep volatile infects at a diftance. 



Once more, Nature has not employed, in this 

 refpect, any one precaution in behalf of Man. Of 

 a truth, on contemplating the beauty of his forms, 

 and his complete nakednefs, it is impoffible for me 

 not to admit the ancient tradition of our origin. 

 Nature, in placing him on the Earth, faid to him: 

 *.' Go, degraded creature, animal defhitute of cloth- 

 " ing, intelligence without light ; go, and provide 

 " for thy own wants ; it (hall not be in thy power 

 |™ to enlighten thy blinded reafon, but by directing 

 " it continually toward Heaven, nor to fuftain thy 

 " miferable life, without the afliftance of beings 

 " like thyfelf." And thus, out of the mifery of 

 Man, fprung up the two commandments of the 

 Law. 



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