$Z STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Nature, however, has beftowed thefe two paf- 

 fions on Man, as a fource of happinefs. She pro- 

 duces an equal number of each fex, in order to 

 diredt the love of every man to a fingle objeâ:, 

 and in that objed flie has united all the harmonics 

 which are fcattered over her mofb beautiful pro- 

 duâiions. There is between Man and Woman a 

 wonderful analogy of forms, of inclinations, and of 

 taftes ; but there is a difference ftill greater, of 

 thefe very qualities. Love, as we fhall have occa- 

 lion to obferve, refults only from contrails, and the 

 greater they are, the more powerful is it's energy. 

 1 could eafily demonftrate this, by the evidence of 

 a thoufand hiftorical fafts. It is well known, for 

 example, with what a mad excefs of paflion that 

 tall and clumfy foldier Mark Anthony loved, and 

 was beloved by, Cleopatra ; not the perfon whom 

 our Sculptors reprefent, of a tall, portly, fabine 

 figure, but the Cleopatra whom Hiftorians paint, 

 as little, lively, fprightly, carried, in difguife, 

 about the ftreets of Alexandria, in the night-time, 

 packed up in a parcel of goods, on the (houlders 

 OÏ AppollodoruSy to keep an affignaiion with Julhis 

 Ccffar. 



The influence of contrafts, in Love, is fo cer- 

 tain, that, on feeing the lover, it would be ealily 

 poflîble to draw the portrait of the beloved objeâ:, 

 without having feen it, provided only it were 



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