330 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



tention of Nature to multiply her benefits, by va- 

 rying only the form of them, without changing 

 almoft any thing of their qualities. Thus, in our 

 gardens, what a delightful and beneficial confo- 

 nancy between the orange and citron trees, the 

 apple and the pear, the walnut and the filbert ; 

 and in our farm-yards, between the horfe and the 

 afs, the goofe and the duck, the cow and the flie- 

 goat. 



Farther, each genus is in confonancy with it- 

 felf, from difference of fex. There are, however, 

 between the (exes, contrails which give the greatefl 

 energy to their loves, from the very oppofition of 

 Contraries, from which, as we have feen, all har- 

 mony takes it's birth : but without the general 

 confonancy of form which is between them, (en- 

 fible beings of the fame genus never would have 

 approached each other. Without this, one fex 

 would have for ever remained a ftranger to the 

 other. Before each of them could have obferved 

 what the other pofTefled that correfponded to it's 

 neceffities, the time of reflexion would have ab- 

 forbed that of love, and, perhaps, have extin- 

 guilhed all defire of it. It is confonancy which 

 -attrads, and contrail which unites them. I do not 

 believe that there is in any one genlis, an animal 

 of one fex entirely different from one of the other, 

 in exterior forms; and if fuçh differences are ac- 

 tually 



