STUDY I. 7^ 



turc exhibit contrafts, harmonies, and tranfitions, 

 which wonderfully unite their different empires to 

 each other. 



We (hall examine by what magic it is, that the 

 contrafts are produdive, at once, of pleafure and 

 pain, of friendfhip and hatred, of exiftence and 

 deftrudlion. From them proceeds that great prin- 

 ciple of Love, which divides all the individuals 

 into two great clafles, objeds loving, and objeds 

 beloved. This principle extends from animals 

 and plants, which are diftinguilhed by fex, down 

 to infenfible foffils j as metals, which have mag- 

 netic powers, moft of which are ftill unknown to 

 us ; and from faits which ftrive to unite in the 

 fluids where they fwim, up to the Globes, which 

 have a mutual attradion in the Heavens. It op- 

 pofes individual to individual by difference of fex, 

 and genus to genus by difference of forms, in or- 

 der to extrad from them harmonies innumerable. 



In the Elements, Light is oppofed to Darknefs, 

 Heat to Cold, Earth to Water, and their accords 

 produce days, temperatures, views, the moft 

 agreeable. In vegetables, we Ihall fee, in the fo- 

 refts of the North, the thick and gloomy foliage, 

 the tranquil attitude and the pyramidical form of 

 the fir, contraft with the tender verdure, and 

 moveable foliage, of the birch, which, from it's 



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