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interrogated afreih ; and 5 besides this, again at every 

 time that you appear in public in any of the parts 

 about the parade. It must be confeffed, that one can 

 fcarcely conceive any thing more troublefonie than this 

 method of proceeding ; and a man who has but th& 

 leaf! fentiment of freedom, and is not obliged to re- 

 main here on account of his affairs, cannot poffibly 

 be long at his eafe in Potfdam. 



ORIGIN OP MONACHISM. 

 BY DR. ZIMMERMANN. 



Un DER the burning fky, and in the frightful 

 wastes of Africa and Aha we perceive mankind to bfc 

 born either with a Itronger impulfe to folitude, from 

 melancholy, or with a greater propensity to reft, from 

 indolence, than in countries where the head is lefs 

 heated, and the body not rendered fo fomnoient by th© 

 fervour of the fun. 



Yet, how rapidly foever fuch multitudes of mo- 

 nasteries fprung up in the Eaft during the gloomy 

 night of univerfal barbarifm; though northern bodies 

 may be fo much better built for the austerities of the 

 monastic life: yet it will not amount to a proof that 

 climate has any influence on the propensity to folitude. 

 What in Africa and Ana climate alone may be able to 

 effect in favour of monachifm^ the pleaiing profpect of 

 pampering a facred paunch in the plentiful houfes of 

 God, at the expence of old mperftitious matrons and 

 linners of quality, may .produce under ^ northern Iky. 



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