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time*. But we have indicated vegetable harmonies 

 flill more interefting, by demonftrating, that the 

 time of the expanfion of every plant, of it's flower- 

 ing, and of the maturity of it's fruit, was conneded 

 with the expanfions, and the neceffities, of the ani- 

 mal creation, and efpecially with ihofe of Man. 

 There is not a fingle one but what poflefles rela- 

 tions of utility to us, dired or indireft : but this 

 immenfe and myfterious part of the Hiftory of 

 Man will, perhaps, never be known, except to the 

 Angels. 



My third Part, prefents the application of thefe 

 harmonic principles to the nature of Man himfelf. 

 In it I have (hewn. That he is formed of two 

 powers, the one phyfical, and the other intelle6lual, 

 which afFe(ft him perpetually with two contrary 

 fentiments, the one of which is that of his mifery, 

 and the other that of his excellence. I have de- 

 monflrated, that thefe two powers were moft hap- 

 pily gratified in the different periods of the paf- 

 fions, of the ages, and of the occupations to which 

 Nature has deftined Man, fuch as agriculture, 

 marriage, the fettlement of pofterity. Religion. 



I have dwelt, principally, on the affeftions of 

 the intelleftual power, by rendering it apparent, 



* Confult his Natural Hiftory, Book xviii, chap. 28. 



that 



