sexes. Hence arise the passion of love, the solicitude to 

 appear amiable,* the desire of pleasing, and being pleased. 

 To satisfy this desire, the fine arts are called in aid. The 

 dance. is led; the song, the strains of the shepherd's pipe, 

 a,re heard in every grove. The hand of the lover, guided 

 by passion, attempts to pourtray the features, that have 

 captivated his soul, and remain imprinted in his heart. 

 Hence results a more diligent cultivation, a more extend- 

 .ed use, and a more exquisite relish of the Jine arts. The 

 heroic, hunter, and pastoral states, gradually settle, into 

 the elaborate and complex forms of civil government; which, 

 in time, supersede that sort of family rule, that patriar- 

 chal, or despotic form of government, which universally 

 obtains, among the primaeval races of men; a form of go- 

 vernment naturally growing out of their original state, and 

 well suited to the simplicity of their early conceptions. 

 3t2 What are called the Jine arts, arise, from the exertions 

 of the human talents, to multiply the enjoyments or com- 

 forts of life. They are the objects of those appetencies, 

 which prevail, in a more perfect state of society, and a 

 more cultivated period of the human intellect; and are the 

 consequence of a satiety of the enjoyments, which are 

 merely necessary to the preservation of the human race. 

 It is this constant endeavour of man, to encrease his com- 

 •foi-ts, and enjoyments, that gives activity to his existence, 

 and furnishes employment, to his various faculties, of me- 

 mory, 



* See Essay on Amatory Poetry, in the preceding volume. 



