This Doctrine may be made yet more sensible by applying it to the Practice of _Theophrastus_, whose Conduct, in this Respect, ought to be look’d upon as an authentick Pattern. Rusticity, Avarice and Impudence, are in their own Nature distinct Vices, but yet there is a very near Relation between them, which has a real Foundation in the Actions of Men. And, as on the one Hand, _Theophrastus_ has drawn distinct Characters of these Vices, so, on the other Hand, he has made the peculiar Features of one or more of these Vices enter into the Characters of the other. This is Matter of Fact; and if the Reader will be at the Pains to compare the _6th_, _9th_, and _11th_, Chapters, as he will be perswaded of the Truth of what is here asserted, so will he be convinc’d, at the same Time, that _Theophrastus_ has not confounded by this Mixture the real Nature of Things, or transgress’d thereby, in any wise, the Rules of _Characteristic-Justice_. Again; Loquacity and an ill-tim’d Behaviour are two very different Vices in common Conversation; but yet _Theophrastus_ has concluded his Character of Loquacity, with the same Stroke which begins that of an ill-tim’d Behaviour; because tho’ these Vices are of a different Nature, yet do they not exclude each other; and the Actions of Men manifestly prove, that they are frequently to be found in the same Subject. The nice Reader therefore, instead of being offended to find the peculiar Features of one Vice interspers’d in the Character of another, ought, on the contrary, to admire the Judgment and Accuracy of _Theophrastus_ in this Respect: For this Mixture does not proceed from Inaccuracy, but is founded in Nature: And ’tis the Work of a sagacious Head, as well to discover the near Relations that are between different things, as to separate those Things, which by Nature are nearly related, but yet are really distinct. The Beauty of every Kind of Writing arises from the Conformity which it bears to Nature; and therefore the Excellency of _Characteristic-Writings_ must consist in exact Representations of human Nature.--This Harmony between Art and Nature may be call’d Justice: And tho’ the Boundaries of it may be more extensive in those Works, in which a greater Range is allow’d to the Imagination, yet still, Invention and Fiction must be admitted in _Characteristic- Writings_, when the Characters design’d are of a general Nature; for then the Writer does not copy from an individual Original, and all the Extravagances of Nature are natural, when they are well represented.