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fobcr camel, to force his way through the burning 

 fands of Africa, impervious, but for him, to every 

 effort of the traveller. The appetites of thefe ani- 

 mals do not grow out of the places which they in- 

 habit; for the oftrich, who is a fellow-tenant of 

 the fame deferts with the camel, is ftill more vora- 

 cious than the hog. 



No one law of magnetifm, of gravity, of attrac- 

 tion, of eleftricity, of heat, or of cold, governs the 

 World. Thefe pretended general laws, are nothing 

 more than particular means. Our Sciences mif- 

 kad us, by afcribing to Nature a falfe providence. 

 They put the balance into her hand, it is true, 

 but not of juftice j no, it is only the balance of 

 commerce. They weigh only the faits and the 

 maffes, but put afide the wifdom, the intelligence, 

 and the goodnefs. They are not afraid of exclud- 

 ing from the heart of Man that fentiment of the 

 divine qualities, which communicates to him fo 

 much force J and of accumulating on his mind, 

 the weights and movements which opprefs him. 

 They put in oppofition the fquares of times and 

 velocities, but they negleâ: thofe wonderful com- 

 penfations with which Nature interpofes for the 

 relief of all beings, having beftowed the moft in- 

 genious on the moft feeble, the moft abundant on 

 the pooreft, and having united all for the relief of 



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