STUDY X. 275 



HARMONY. 



Nature oppofes beings to each other, in order 

 to produce between them agreeable conformities. 

 This Law has been acknowledged from the higheft 

 Antiquity. It is to be found in many paffages of 

 the Holy Scriptures. I produce one from the 

 Book of Ecclefiallicus * : Omnia dupUcia, unum 

 contra unum, & non fecit quidquam deejje. "All 

 " things are double, one againft another; and He 

 " hath made nothing unperfeâ: : one thing efta- 

 " bliflieth the good of another." 



I confider this great truth as the key of all Phi- 

 lofophy. It has likevvife been fruitful in difco- 

 very, as well as that other -, Nothing has been cre- 

 ated in vain. It has been the fource of tafte in 

 the arts and in eloquence. Out of contraries arife 

 the pleafures of vifion, of hearing, of touching, 

 of tailing, and all the attrapions of beauty, of 

 whatever kind it may be. But from contraries, 

 likewife, arife uglinefs, difcord, and all the fenfa- 

 tions which fill us with difguft. In this there is 

 fomething very wonderful, that Nature fhould 

 employ the fame caufes to produce effeds fo dif- 



* Ecclefiafticus, chap. xlii. ver. 24, 25. 



T 2 ferent. 



