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S5^ 







PRODUCTION 



Sect. XIX. 7. i. 



To this fhould be added, that a long continued or a great excefs 



of pai 

 death. 



cannot a 



fflia 



an 



D 



d b 



D 



and 



feq 



decooipofi 



att 



as fyncope or fudd 

 ds very violent pain 



and a linserinj^ death attends the continuation of lefs violent ones. 

 Hence it becomes a confolins: circun:i[lance, that nniiery 



o 



mortaL 



A philofopher, whom I left in my library, has perufed the above 

 paragraphs, and added the fubfequent one to my manufcript. " ' 



It 



confoles me to find, as I contemplate with you the whole of orga- 

 nized nature, that it is not in the power of any one perfonage, whe- 

 ther ftatefman or hero, to produce by his ill-employed adivity fo 

 much mifery, as might have been fuppofed. Thus, if a Ruffian 



army 



> 



in thefe infane times, after having endured a laborious march 



/ 



of many hyindred miles, is deftroyed by a French army in defence of 

 their republic, what has happened ? Forty thoufahd human crea- 

 tures dragged from their homes and their connexions ceafe to exifl, 

 and have manured the earth ; but the quantity of organized matter, 

 of which they were compofed, prefently revives in the forms of mil- 

 lions of microfcopic animals, vegetables, and infecfls, and afterwards 

 of quadrupeds and men ; the fum of whofe happinefs is perhaps 



much greater than that of the haraiTed foldiers, by whofe deftruc- 

 tioh they have gained their exiftence ! 



\ 



Is not this a confolino; idea 



to a mind of univerfal fympathy r 



? 



*' I well remember to have heard an ingenious agricultor boafi-^ 

 that he had drained two hundred acres of morafly land, on which he 



F 



now was able to feed a hundred oxen ; and added, ' is not that a me- 

 ritorious thing r' ' True,' replied one of the company, * but you for- 



o 



that you have deflroyed a thoufand free republics of 



to 



ant§, and 



■ 



befides innumerable aquatic infedls, and 



ten thoufand rational fro 

 aquatic vegetables .'' 



" Having written the above, ' I fear you may think me a mifan 

 thrope, but I aflure you a contrary fenfation dwells in my bofom 



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nd 



