STUDY VIIT. 1^3 



contraéled, (liould believe in GOD, if that belief 

 were the refuk of fome tradition, or of a profound 

 metaphyfical difquifition ? It arifes from the fpec- 

 tacle of Nature fimply. A poor Arabian of the 

 Defert, ignorant as mod of the Arabians are, was 

 one day afked, How he came to be allured that 

 there was a God ? " In the fame way," replied 

 he, " that I am able to tell, by the print impreffed 

 " on the fand, whether it was a man or a bead 

 ** which paffed that way *.'* 



It is impoffible for Man, as has been faid, to 

 imagine any form, or to produce a fingle idea of 

 which the model is not in Nature. He expands 

 his reafon only on the reafons which Nature has 

 fupplied. GOD mufb, therefore, neceffarily exift, 

 were it but for this, that Man has an idea of Him. 

 But if we attentively confider, that every thing, 

 neceflary to Man, exiftsin a moft wonderful adap- 

 tation to his neceffities, for the ftrongeft of all 

 reafons, GOD like wife muft exift. He who is the 

 univerfal adaptation of all the focietics of the Hu- 

 man Race. 



But I fhould wiaQi to know, In what way, the 

 perfons who doubt of his exiftence, on a review 

 of the Works of Nature, would defire to be af- 



* Travels through Arabia, by Monf. d ^iwieux. 



fured 



