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in the hour of diftrefs, would fhe attempt to avail 

 herfelf of the qualities which fhe has in common 

 with them, and which make communities to flou- 

 rifli, temperance, a difpofition to induftry, the love 

 of Country, and, above all, that of equality, 

 united to fuperior talents : (lie would meet, from 

 them, with no hofpitality, no confideration, no 

 compaflion. Nay, (he would not find an afylum 

 even among other bees of a different fpecies : for 

 every fpecies has it's proper fphere afîigned to it, 

 and this by an effeft of the wifdom of Nature ; 

 for if it were otherwife, the befl organized fpecies, 

 or the flrongeft, would expel the others from their 

 domains. Hence it follows, that the fociety of 

 animals could not fubfifl independent of the paf- 

 fions, nor human fociety independent of virtue. 

 Man alone, of all animals, pofTefTes the fèntiment 

 of univerfal order, which is that of the Deity 

 himfelf J and by carrying over the whole Earth, 

 the virtues which are the fruits of it, whraever 

 may be the differences which prejudice interpofes 

 between man and man, it is fure of alluring all 

 hearts to itfelf. It was by this fentiment of uni- 

 verfal order which governed your life, that you 

 have become the men of all Nations, and that you 

 intereft us flill, even when you are no ionger with 

 us, Arijiides, Socrates, Marcus- AiireHus, divine 

 Fenelon, and you, likewife, unfortunate John- 

 James ! 



HAR. 



