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32 call into exitence a creature above the brutes, who could think and improve himelf, why hould that inetimable gift, for a gift it was, if man was o created as to have a capacity to rie above the tate in which enation produced brutal eae, be called, in direct terms, a cure? A cure it might be reckoned, if all our exitence was bounded by our continuance in this world; for why hould the gracious fountain of life give us paions, and the power of reflecting, only to imbitter our days and inpire us with mitaken notions of dignity? Why hould he lead us from love of ourelves to the ublime emotions which the dicovery of his widom and goodnes excites, if thee feelings were not et in motion to improve our nature, of which they make a part, and render us capable of enjoying a more godlike portion of happines? Firmly peruaded that no evil exits in the world that God did not deign to take place, I build my belief on the perfection of God.

Roueau exerts himelf to prove that all was right originally: a crowd of authors that all is now right: and I, that all will be right. But,&ensp;