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Rh pleaure of the neceary kind: but the deire of thee things beyond thee purpoes, is capable of being curbed in youth; and, being hurtful to the body and to the oul, with reference to her attaining widom and temperance, may be called unneceary: in the ame manner we hall ay of venereal deires, and others. We jut now denominated a drone the man who was full of uch deires and pleaures; but the oligarchic man, him who was under the neceary ones. The democratic appears to arie from the oligarchic man in this manner:—When a young man, bred up without proper intruction, and in a parimonious manner, comes to tate the honey of the drones, and aociates with thoe vehement and terrible creatures, who are able to procure pleaures every way diverified, from every quarter; thence imagine there is the beginning of a change in him, from the oligarchic to the democratic. And as the city was changed by the aitance of an alliance from without, with one party of it, with which it was of kin, hall not the youth be changed in the ame manner, by the aitance of one pecies of deires from without, to another within him, which reembles it, and is akin to it? By all means. If any aitance be given to the oligarchic party within him, by his father, or the others of his family, admonihing and upbraiding him, then truly aries edition and oppoition, and a fight within him, with himelf. Sometimes the democratic party yields to the oligarchic; ome of the deires are detroyed, others retire, on the rie of a certain modety in the oul of the youth, and he is again rendered omewhat decent. Again, when ome deires retire, there are others akin to them, which grow up, and through inattention to the father's intructions become both many and powerful, draw