48 StUDIES OF NATURE. 



political forms that determine nothing, as' to either 

 their happinefs, or their power, we (hall infift only 

 on their moral conftitution. 



Every Government, of whatever defcription, is 

 internally happy, and refpeftable abroad, when it 

 beftows on all it's fubjeds their natural right of ac- 

 quiring fortune and honours : and the contrary 



ceflary for the comttionalty to attach themfelves to the Great. 

 Rome contained a populacy of mere menials. The love of 

 Country was extinguifhed. The wretched did not know of 

 what to complain. No one did them any wrong. All was or- 

 derly ; but this very order precluded the poffibility of their ever 

 coming to any thing. They did not cut the throats of the citi- 

 zens, as in the days of Marius and Sylla, but they ftifled them. 



In all human Society, there are two powers, the one temporal, 

 and the other fpiritual. You find them in all the Governments of 

 the World, in Europe, in Afia, in Africa, and in America. 

 The Human Race is governed in the fame way as the human 

 body. Such is thé will of the Author of Nature, in order to 

 the prefervation and happinefs of Mankind. When Nations 

 are opprefled by the fpiritual power, they refort for proteftion to 

 the temporal ; when this laft opprefTes, in it's turn, they have 

 recourfe to the other,* When both thefe concur to render them 

 niiferable, then arife herefies in fwarms, fchifms, civil wars, and 

 a multitude of fecondary powers, which balance the abufes of 

 the two firft, till there refults, at length, a general apathy, and 

 the State falls into deftruftion. We lliall prefently go into a 

 thorough invefligation of this interefting fubjed, wheji we come 

 to fpeak of France. We fliall find that, though there is but one 

 which governs, of right, there are five powers which govern, in 



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