i S 2 PASSIONS and different TEMPERS. 
It is more eafy to fay what we fhould not do, than what we 
>iiould ; but neither our reason nor our passions will ever 
be entirely at rest. To complain of being what we are, is to 
complain of the author of nature, that we are not made as we 
ought to be. Man is a perfect creature ; as perfect furely, in 
his kind, as a horfe or a crow. We, indeed, have reason to 
direct us, to choose or to reject, whatever our appetites or 
paflions may lead us to : but thefe animals being left to in- 
dindt, there can be no harm in their eating hay, or feeding on 
carrion. 
You may obferve further, that there feems to be fome ana- 
logy in the government of the foul and body, compared with 
political government ; the leaft imperfedt form is a mixture of 
the lowed; with the highed members of the community : fo the 
government of the human foul very plainly arifes from passions 
as well as reason. Frequent conteds will arife in the politi- 
cal as well as moral government ; but as the common end is 
happiness, where no unnatural violence is ufed on either fide, 
the refult will be concord and harmony. We find the fame 
in the material world, 
“ Where all fuhfijls by elemental strife, 
“ And passions are the elements of life” 
Nor can this dodtrine be in the lead: dangerous : we cannot err 
fo much as to commit ourfelves to the guidance of our paflions, 
and think it right to do fo. No reafonable creature doubts 
that the pleafures of reason are the best, that is, the mod: 
pure, durable, and exalted ; that a man’s greated glory is the 
exercife 
