From what has been said, it may be concluded that the names under which man has designated the concealed causes acting in nature, and their various effects, are never more than _necessity_ considered under different points of view, with the original cause of which--the great _cause of causes_--he must ever remain ignorant. It will be found that what he calls _order_, is a necessary consequence of causes and effects, of which he sees, or believes he sees, the entire connection, the complete routine, which pleases him as a whole, when he finds it conformable to his existence. In like manner it will be seen that what he calls _confusion_, is a consequence of like necessary causes and effects, of which he loses the concatenation, which he therefore thinks unfavourable to himself, or but little suitable to his being. That he has designated by the names of-- _Intelligence_, those necessary causes that necessarily operate the chain of events which he comprises under the term _order_: _Divinity_, those necessary but invisible causes which give play to nature, in which every thing acts according to immutable and necessary laws: _Destiny_ or _fatality_, the necessary connection of those unknown causes and, effects which he beholds in the world: _Chance_, those effects which he is not able to foresee, or of which he is ignorant of the necessary connection, with their causes: _Intellectual_ and _moral faculties_, those effects and those modifications necessary to an organized being, whom he has supposed to be moved by an inconceivable agent; who he has believed distinguished from his body, of a nature totally different from it, and which he has designated by the word SOUL. In consequence, he has believed this agent immortal; not dissoluble like the body. It has been shewn that the marvellous doctrine of another life, is founded upon gratuitous suppositions, contradicted by reflections, unsupported by experience, that may or may not be, without man's knowing any thing on the subject. It has been proved, that the hypothesis is not only useless to man's morals, but again, that it is calculated to palsy his exertions; to divert him from actively pursuing the true road to his own happiness; to fill him with romantic caprices; to inebriate him with opinions prejudicial to his tranquillity; in short, to lull to slumber the vigilance of legislators; by dispensing them from giving to education, to the institutions, to the laws of society, all that attention, which it is the duty and for his interest they should bestow. It must have been felt, that _politics_ has unaccountably rested itself upon wrong opinions; upon ideas little capable of satisfying those passions, which every thing conspires to kindle in the heart of man; who ceases to view the future, while the present seduces and hurries him along. It has been shewn, that contempt of death is an advantageous sentiment, calculated to inspire man's mind with courage; to render him intrepid; to induce