MIRABAUD'S
SYSTEM OF NATURE.
Translated from the Original,
BY SAMUEL WILKINSON.
PART I.
LAWS OF NATURE.—OF MAN.—THE FACULTIES OF THE SOUL.—DOCTRINE OF IMMORTALITY.—ON HAPPINESS.
CHAP. I.
Nature and her Laws.
Man has always deceived himself when he abandoned experience to follow imaginary systems.—He is the work of nature.—He exists in Nature.—He is submitted to the laws of Nature.—He cannot deliver himself from them:—cannot step beyond them even in thought. It is in vain his mind would spring forward beyond the visible world: direful and imperious necessity ever compel his return—being formed by Nature, he is circumscribed by her laws; there exists nothing beyond the great whole of which he forms a part, of which he experiences the influence. The beings his fancy pictures as above nature, or distinguished from her, are always chimeras formed after that which he has already seen, but of which it is utterly impossible he should ever form any finished idea, either as to the place
