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 quickly proves to him that, bereaved of as- sistance, he cannot alone procure all those objects which are requisite to his felicity He lives with sensible and intelligent beings, occupied, like himself, with their own pccu- liar happiness, but capable of assisting him in obtaining those objects he most desires: he discovers that these beings will not be lavor- able to his views, but when they find their interest involved; from which he concludes that his own happiness demands that he should conduct himself at all times in man. ner suitable to conciliate the attachment, to obtain the appreciation, to elicit the esteem, to secure the assistance of those beings who are most capaciated to further his designs. He percelvcs that 1t Is man who Is most ne- cessary to the welfare of man i; and that, to induce him to join his interest, he ought to make him find real advantages in seconding his projects. But to procure real advantages to the beings of the human species, is to have virtue; the reasonable man, therefore, is obliged to feel that it Is his interest to be vir- tuous. Virtue is only the art of rendering himself happy by the felicity of others. The virtuous is he who communcates happiness
 
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 Such, then, Is the true foundation of all morals; merit and virtue are founded on the nature of man-have their dependence upon his wants: 1t IS virtue alone that can reader him truly happy; without virtue, society can neither be useful, nor indeed subsist: 1t can only have real utility, when il assemblies be- ings animated with the desire of pleasing each other, and disposed to labor to their recipro- cal advantage. There exist no comforts in those families whose members are not in the happy disposition to lend each other mutual succor-who have not reciprocity of feel ing that stimulates them to assist one lhe other; that induces them to cling to each other to support the sorrows of life; to unite their efforts to put away those evils to which nature has subjected them. The conjugal bonds are sweet only i'll proportion as they identify the interest of two beings united by the want of legitimate pleasure, from whence results the maintenance of political society, and the means of furnishing 1t with citizens Friendship has charms only when it more particularly associates two virtuous beings l; that is to say, two beings animated with q sincere desire of conspiring to their rccpro- cal happiness; in short, il is only by display ing virtue, that man can merit the benevo- lenee, the confidence, the esteem, of all those with whom he has relation; in a word, no man can be independently happy Holbach.
 An Hour during the French Rcrolmion.- At a very late hour ill the room of the .Ja- cobins, surrounded by dozen other patriots as remorselcss as himself, sat colossal man his harsh features dilated by the wine he had taken, and his aspect rude as Breton peasants The glass was filled in his hands, and with a voice of thunder he gave the toast, May the body of the last King be burnt to ashes on the funeral pyre made with the body of the last Priestn Ii waq the tor- rife Danton. The words were repeated with shouts and clamor by the party around him. At that very moment a dwarGsh man, with a huge head, mouth marked with the hard ness of a yindictive temper, and an eye in which mcipient madness already glarea- without stockings, and in waistcoat dabbled with blood, safe in a cellar under the very Place du Carrousel which afterwards behcld his drunken apotheosis, writing recommen- daton that France massacre two hundred thousand men to the names of her stranglel freedom, with an exact calculation of the time requisite for such purpose. Mercifu idea! It was the sanguinary Marat.
 | At that very moment, two members of the assembly were perlecting plan for the de. struction of the monarchy, and the establish ment of dictatorship. The one was Max imilien lsadore Robespierre He himself was to be dictator. At that moment, in q little chamber of the Palace, at Versailles, sal a kingly looking old man-weeping The father was weeping over the baclsllding oi his children, and the King over the treason of his people. It was the unfortunate Louis XVI. At that moment, in galy Illuminated saloon of the same Palace, two females were playing at ecarte; the one was lovely and still youthful She lost, and the three hun dred louis were passed to her fair antagonist who murmured many apologies, but yet took the notes proGered her. The loser was Ma ria Antoinettc. At the same moment beggai lay starving for lack of bread ill the garden of the Tuiieries, while her wasted child pressed to her shrunken nipple, hadtried the breast in vain. At that very moment monk was unlocking himself, never to resume the cowl of the Benedictines. maiden draped in far too Cyprian style, was sitting neal him; and wine and glasses were on the table he had discovered better professon-and this was Talleyrand-th man of the people
 Decay mol annihilation-Universal nature has death stamped in legiblc characters on its every feature. The globe which we in- habit has ever since its creation, been under going a series of organic changes. The splendid palaces and magnificent temples reared by the geniuses of antiquity, and asso- ciated in our minds with the mighty spirits of ancient Greece and Rome, have, with a few exceptions, passed away. The sweet and beautiful aower-ft emblem of death- whose fragrance afforded us so much plea- sure, buds into life and expires. The spirit of change, or death, peryades alike the ami mal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Or