368 OF THE NATURE, &c. 



give the hiftory of his body. In the preceding 

 chapters, we have explained his formation and 

 expanfion, and traced him to the very moment 

 of his birth : Let us now run over the different 

 ages of his live; and, after conducting him to 

 that period when he is feparated from his body, 

 we fhall leave it to moulder in the common mafs 

 of matter to which it originally belonged. 



SECT, 



