STUDY XII. 8l 



does not take place ; the two fexes are always, 

 very nearly, equally numerons : their occupations 

 are different ; but their deftiny is the fame. The 

 women, who frequently impel men to engage in 

 hazardous enterprizes to fupport their luxury, or 

 who foment animofities, and even kindle wars 

 among them, to gratify their vanity, are carried 

 off, in the fecurity of pleafure and indulgence, by 

 maladies to which men are not fubjed; j but which 

 frequently refult from the moral, phyfical, and po- 

 litical pains which the men undergo in confe- 

 quence of them. Thus the equilibrium of birth 

 between the fexes, is re-eftabliihed by the equili- 

 brium of death. 



Nature has multiplied thofe harmonic contrails 

 in all her Works, relatively to Man ; for the fruits 

 which minifler to our neceffities, frequently pof- 

 fefs, in themfelves, oppofite qualities, which ferve 

 as a mutual compenfation, 



Thefe effedls, as has been elfewhere demon- 

 ilrated, are not the mechanical refults of climate, 

 to the qualities of which they are frequently in 

 oppofition. All the Works of Nature have the 

 wants of Man for their end ; as all the fentiments 

 of Man have Deity for their principle. The final 

 intentions of Nature have given to Man the know- 

 ledge of all her Works, as it is the inltinâ: of 



VOL. iVc G Deity 



