Politique Observation.
A Man may easily hide his natural inclinations, and sometimes he may deminish them, but it is almost impossible totally to extinguish them. Judgment may oppose it's utmost to the violence of Nature, but it is ordinarily seen, that at la••t be∣ing weary of the Combat, nature reassumes it self, and becomes more violent. Hap∣py he, saith an Antient, whose birth inclineth him to lean towards vertue. And it is most true, that there needs as much constraint to re-estate a man in good habits, who is borne with wicked ones, as to make a tree strait which hath had time to grow bigg and crooked. Repel nature as much as the will; saith another, it will however have it's course. And as he who is in the middest of a Torrent, is sometimes forced to suffer himself to be carried by the Current of the waters, so that soul which na∣ture hath made to be borne accompanied with evil habits, hath a World of trouble to overcome and Master them. Who ever attempts to overcome them, ladeth him∣self with a Burthen; under which he may sink down sooner or later, if he be not very vigilant, especially if he be in imployments, which sooth his inclinations; For although Nature may have lain in a slumber a long time, yet at last opportunity revives it, his thoughts themselves seizing upon him, and giving new vigour to his inclinations, There is not any thing so joyful to us, as to embrace those objects, to which nature doth addict us, and the wills carry us insensibly to them.