SECT. VIII.The same subject continued.WHOEVER has compared together the dif∣ferent conditions and manners of men, under varieties of education or fortune, will be satisfied, that mere situation does not constitute their happiness or misery; nor a diversity of ex∣ternal observances imply any opposition of senti∣ments on the subject of morality. They express their kindness and their enmity in different actions; but kindness or enmity is still the principal article of consideration in human life. They engage in different pursuits, or acquiesce in different con∣ditions; but act from passions nearly the same. There is no precise measure of accommodation required to suit their conveniency, nor any de∣gree of danger or safety under which they are pe∣culiarly fitted to act. Courage and generosity, fear and envy, are not peculiar to any station or order of men; nor is there any condition in which some of the human race have not shewn, that it is possible to employ, with propriety, the talents and virtues of their species.WHAT, then, is that mysterious thing called Happiness, which may have place in such a variety of stations, and to which circumstances in one age or nation thought necessary, are in another held to be destructive, or of no effect? It is not the suc∣cession of mere animal pleasures, which, apart from the occupation or the company in which they serve to engage the mind, can fill up but a few moments 0