in his youth, and Titus at his death; embalmed with the tears of the Senate, of the Roman people, and of strangers; and transmitted unanimously to posterity as the delight of mankind? It is not climate then, which regulates the morality of man; it is opinion, it is education; and such is their power, that they triumph not only over latitudes, but even over temperament. Cesar, so ambitious, so dissolute; and Cato, so temperate and vituous, were both of a sickly constitution. Place, climate, nation, family, temperament, no one of these, and in no part of the world, determine men to vice or virtue. They are every where free to choose. p. 240.

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On looking into those prodigious magazines, where monopolizers hoard up the provision and clothing of a whole province, are we not bound to bless the Hand that created the insect which obliges them to bring these necessary commodities to market? Were grain as incorruptible as gold and silver, it would soon become as scarce.

See under how many locks and doors these metals are secured.---The mite and the moth first lay the miser under the necessity of employing a good many hands in stirring about and sifting his grain, till they force him at last to dispose of it altogether. What is most wonderful, is that the articles which minister to luxury, are not liable to perish by insects, as those which are subservient to the most pressing wants of human life. It is possible to preserve, without any diminution of value, coffee, silk, and cottons, even for ages; but in India, where these commodities are real necessaries of life, there are insects which quickly corrode them, particularly cotton. p. 246.

I have already pointed out the utility, the absolute necessity of the volcanoes, whose fires purify the waters of the sea, as those of the thunder purify the air. Earthquakes proceed from the same cause.---The inhab itants of Lisbon know well that their city has been several times shattered by shocks of this kind, and that it is imprudent to build

in stone. To persons who can submit to live in a house of wood, they have nothing formidable. p. 248.

The most unwholsome regions of the earth, as far as I am at present able to recollect, are in Asia, on the banks of the Ganges, from which proceed every year, putrid fevers, that in 1771, cost Bengal the life of more than a million of men. They have for their focus the rice plantations which are artificial morasses, formed along the Ganges for the culture of that grain.

p. 249.

I do not believe there would have been a single unwholesome spot on the earth, if. men had not put their hands to it. p. 250.

Thus the miseries which oppress mankind, pass from huts to palaces, from the line to the poles, from ages past to ages yet to come; and their long and lingering effects are a fearful voice crying in the ears of the potentates of the earth, "Learn to be just, and not to oppress the miserable." p. 253.

When human policy locks the chain round the ankle of a slave, divine justice. rivets the other end round the neck of the tyrant. p. 256.

Alliances with plebian families were not disdained even by Emperors.

Augustus gave his only daughter, Julia, in marriage to the plebian Agrippa. p. 257.

Politicians may ascribe the different characters of negroes and Europeans to whatever causes they please, for my own part, say it on the most perfect conviction, that I know no book, which contains monuments more authentic of the History of Nations, and of that of nature, than the book of Genesis. p. 265.

The negroes escape a considerable proportion of their miseries, by the thoughtlessness of their temper, and the levity of their imagination. They dance in the midst of famine, as of abundance, in chains, as when at liberty. If a chicken's foot in

spires them with terror, a small slip of white paper restores their courage. p.266.

In the study of religion, we shall find that there is nothing that can pretend to that name, on the face of the earth, so perfectly adapted to the wants of human nature, as the religion of the Bible. p. 272.

The law of Moses, from its privations, was evidently intended to be the law of a particular people, whereas that of the Gospel, from its universality, must have been intended for the whole human race.

p. 275.

The religion of the Indians promises pleasure in this world; that of the Jews, riches; that of the Turks, conquest; ours enjoins the practice of virtue, and promises the reward of it in heaven. p. 277.

Christianity has not limited love in the heart of man, to wife and children, but extends it to all mankind. p. 277.