We muſt in the firſt place allow that the more violent the Paſſions, the more neceſſary are Laws to reſtrain them: but beſides that the Diſorders and the Crimes, to which theſe Paſſions daily give riſe among us, ſufficiently prove the Inſufficiency of Laws for that Purpoſe, we would do well to look back a little further and examine, if theſe Evils did not ſpring up with the Laws themſelves; for at this Rate, tho' the Laws were capable of repreſſing theſe Evils, it is the leaſt that might be expected from them, ſeeing it is no more than ſtopping the Progreſs of a Miſchief which they themſelves have produced.
Let us begin by diſtinguiſhing between what is moral and what is phyſical in the Paſſion called Love. The phyſical Part of it is that general Deſire which prompts the Sexes to unite with each other; the moral Part is that which de-
