STUDY II 



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STUDY SECOND. 



BENEFICENCE OF NATURE. 



MOST men, in policed Nations, look on Na- 

 ture with indifference. They are in the 

 midft of her Works, and they admire only human 

 grandeur. What charm, after all, can render the 

 Hiftory of Men fo interefting ? It has to boaft of 

 vain objeâis of glory alone, of uncertain opinions, 

 of bloody viftories, or, at mofb, of ufelefs labours. 

 If Nature, fometimes, finds a place in it, we are 

 called upon to obferve only the ravages which fhe 

 has committed, and to hear her charged with a 

 thoufand calamities, which may be all traced up to 

 our own imprudence. 



With what unremitting attention, on the con- 

 trary, is this common Mother providing for us 

 the means of happinefs ! She has diffufed her bene- 

 fits over the Globe, from Pole to Pole, entirely in 

 the view of engaging us to unite in a mutual com- 

 munication of them. She is inceffantly recalling 



us. 



