Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-08-04

we are bound to believe impossible, sine.
God beng omn!scient, must have knoms
from the beginning how il was best to NAL
man, and being incapable Of error, canno.
rescind his own DEGREES. Such specuators
IKE Harringtoa, the author of the Cceonn
think with all the extravaganza though ~,
with the genius of poetry, conceive and
bring forth the most monstrous and ppn,
tural productions. They never think IT au
OF mans nature, nor estimate his necess;,
ties, but measure every part o! their pro.
cess by his ease and his convenience,
They do not make the government to fl
the man; but the, frse make governments
to suit their own fa1c>, and then Leave it ID
chance or to the operation al Jaws, for apes
of misery an error, &c uHkc the man fe
for Ine governnent--iorg-ttin9 that tho,
governments may be changed, the nature
of man IN she aggregate is no more to be
altered. than tire 70 DC made ifec..e, or va,
ter to burn.
The French revolu,1onists were NOT en-.
tirely unaware-of this, nor improvidentto
meet it. l'ihey knew that the man and the
government must IL ,soele way or other b.
brought to assimilate; and attributiEg too
much Of the man to social tashioning, and
too Lice to, nature and complexion, they
began with measures calculated 10 alter the
whole turn and fabric Of his Thoughts, Ia.
bits, and sentiments. Though those mea.
sures were designed with tljabolical nre.
nuity, ard carried into effect with remorse.
less villainy, they did not answer; Tor the
great taproot ofthose thoughts, habits, and
sentiments, however adventurous and So.
perinduced thcj might be, was still deep
laid ia the nature of man; in his senses, in
his passions, and in his appetltes. instincts
and avcrsions, which though they mayb be,
and in fact are, moulded and fashioned,
and dressed out in thousand external
forms, still remain substantial TIE same,
as mind is still mind, whether trained 70
mathematics or to poetry or, as the Aead
and the eetrea&In the same, whether the
ore be dressed en qs.enc CT cropped, Or tie
other waddle with turned II toes like those
ola Parrot, ON the one hand, or dance an
allemande or move minuet wlth grace
and elegance, on the other. Byhis nature,
man is rapacious, some men complexion.
ally more, some less, but al to degree
which requires restrain for the purposes
Of social life. Rapacity is in his natural
state imposed upon him as necessity, by
his natural wants and when society LAYS "a
restraint upon his rapacity, 1t supplies the
places oft by providing laws Of just distr.
button, and afording protection from The
rapacity of others, Still, however, tex.
ISIS in man, incurabiy--nor ought it to be
cured ii 1t might, since being me boon Of
Sod, it is right that it should exist. Waen.
ever this powerful GAS is let loose BY dis.
solution ofth laws, customs, and opinions
which restrain it, we find it rage without
bounds, and in whatever channel it lakes
its direction, whether ambition or avarce,
carrying always wrong, often ruin, along
with it. When q people are let loose by
revolution, and the consequent dissolution
Of their laws, and what is worse, by the ex-
tinction of ali their reverence for those
laws, they are like the evil Gcnii, in the
Arabian Nights Entertainments, which
was shut up by magician in vessel OF
copper, made fast with S5!om0n's Seal, but
as soon as the seal was taken off, and it ex.
tricased itself from its narrow confines, ex'
banded first into mist that darkened and
hcrror-struck the plains, and at last became
a terrible, malignant, and destructive 6 liant
and sorcerer. No force can get them in a.
gain, and they continue to commit outrage,
and murder and ruin, till some necroman'
Ger who has cunning, skill, and boldness e.
norgh to hazard the attempt, c0nrives 10
pet them again unler S0lom0n's Seal So
II YES IN Fgance. Notwithstanding all the