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minating as he goes. Such, again, is that of the 

 afs, who, well-pleafed, follows, with a flow and 

 meafured pace, the nimble-footed goat, up to the 

 very precipices over which llie fcrambles. From 

 the bee and the butterfly, up to the elephant and 

 the camelopard, there is not a lingle animal on the 

 Earth but what has its contraft^ Man only ex- 

 cepted. 



The contrafts of Man are all within himfelf. 

 Two oppofite paffions, Love and Ambition, ba- 

 lance all his adions. To Love, are referable all 

 the pleafures of the fenfesj to Ambition, all thofe 

 of the foul. Thefe two paffions are in perpetual 

 counterpoife in the fame fubjecl ; and while the 

 firft is accumulating on Man every kind of corpo- 

 real enjoyment, and infenfibly linking him below 

 the level of the beafts j the fécond prompts him 

 to aim at univerfal dominion, and to exalt himfelf, 

 at length, up to the Deity. Thefe two contra- 

 didtory effefts are obfervable in all men, who have 

 it in their power, without obftruftion, to follow 

 thefe oppofite impulfes, whether in the clafs of 

 Kings, or that of Haves. The Neros, the Caligu- 

 las, the Domi/iûns, lived like brutes, and exafted 

 the adoration due to Gods. We find in Negros 

 the fame incontinence, the fame pride, and the 

 fame flupidity. 



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