344 Oh Hunting , Shooting , &V. 
a&ive and lively propenfities, thofe which excite 
to the moft vigorous and toilfome exertions. 
The love of fame gives a glow, an enthufiafm, 
to the feelings of the poffeiTor, when ci'cum- 
fcribed within proper limits, which leads him 
to combat fatigue and danger, to triumph over 
toil and difficulty, and fmile amidft the anguifh 
of pain and death. Yet the fame paffion, uncon- 
troled by reafon, hath prompted the mod abject 
fubmiffion, the moft licentious excefs; it hath 
produced the moft baneful dilorders in fociety, 
and, inftead of deifying human nature, hath 
made earth the abode of thofe fpirits, which the 
poets have afligned to the confines of Tartarus. 
We may remark the fame, of every other 
difpofition of the human mind, in the exercife 
of which, the excefs, or the deficiency alone is 
injurious; but there is none, the limited ufe 
■whereof, doth not contribute to the happinefs 
of the individual, and the good of fociety. 
Not to wander, however, too far from our 
fubjedt, let us, for a moment, confider man 
in a date of nature, whilft he is yet unacquainted 
with the bleffings which fpring from civilization, 
or has conceived an idea of pleafure, fuperior 
to that which arifes from the gratification of his 
appetites. His own perlonal fafety, with that 
of thofe who are dependent on his prote< 51 ion, 
joined to the daily cravings of nature, firft dictate 
the neceftity of waging war with many of thofe 
animals* 
