Young men, excluded by the fanatical idea of chastity from
the society of modest and accomplished women, associate
with these vicious and miserable beings, destroying thereby
all those exquisite and delicate sensibilities, whose exist-
'eiice,'eold-hearted worldlings have denied ; annihilating all
^BBine pasaioB, and debasiug that to a selfiah iaeliog which






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the progress of the perpendicularity of the poles may be
as rapid as the progress of intellect ; or that there should
be a perfect identity between the monil and physical im-
provement of the human species. It is certain that wi«dom

.u not compatible with disease, and tliat, in the present
■tate of the climates of the earth, health, in the true and
comprehensive sense of the word, is out of the reach of
civilized man. Astronomy teaches us that the earth is now

■ in its progress, and that the poles are every year becoming
more and more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong
evidenee afforded by the history of mvtholbgy, and geolo-

. gical researches, that some event of this nature has taken
place already, affords a strong presumption that this pro-
gress is not merely an oscillation, as has been surmised by
tome late astronomers.^ Bones of animals, peculiar to the
horrid zone have been found in the north of Siberia, and on
the banks of the river Ohio. Plants have been found in

itlie fossil state in the interior of Germanv, which demand

•the present climate of Hiudostan for their production.t —

' The researches of M. Baillyt establish the existence of a
people who inhabited a tract of land in Tnrtary,49 degrees
north latitude, of greater antiquity than either the Indians,
the Chinese, or the Chaldeans, from whom these nations
-derived their sciences and theology. We find, from the
testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and
France, were much colder than at present, and tliat their
great rivers were annually frozen over. Astronomy
^teaches us also, that since this period the obliquity of the

» earth's position has been considerably diminished.
