gi STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Their loves arc not lefs varied than their animo- 

 fities. One muft have his feragHo ; another is fa- 

 tisfied with a tranfient miflrefs ; a third unites 

 himfelf to a faithful companion, whom he never 

 abandons till death makes the feparation. Man 

 unites, in his enjoyments, their pleafures and their 

 tranfports; and, fatiated, lighs, and demands of 

 Heaven felicity of a different kind. 



We (hall examine, fimply by the light which 

 reafon fupplies, whether Man, fubjeâied, by his 

 body, to the condition of the animal creation, all 

 whofe neceffities he unites in himfelf, is not, by 

 his foul, allied to creatures of a fuperior order : 

 whether Nature, who has affigned the jurifdiftion 

 of the immenfity of her produftions on the Earth, 

 to a being naked, deftitute of inftin6t, and who 

 muft undergo an apprenticefliip of feveral years 

 in learning to walk only, has reduced him, from 

 his birth, to the alternative of ftudying their qua- 

 lities, or of perifliing ; and whether (he has not re- 

 ferved to herfelf fome extraordinary means of in- 

 terpofing for his relief, amidft the evils of every 

 kind which checker his exiftence, even amoag 

 beings of the fame fpecies with himfelf. 



On reviewing the tranfitions which unite the 

 different kingdoms, and which extend their limits 

 to regions hitherto unknown, we fliall not adopt 



the 



