Brockes, Barthold Heinrich: Jrdisches Vergnügen in Gott. Bd. 2. Hamburg, 1727.

nued, and which are always lodged in Flow-
ers or Blossoms. Nature seems to hide her
principal design, and to be industrious in making
the Earth gay and delightful, while she is car-
rying on her great Work, and intent upon her
own Preservation. The Husband-Man after
the same Manner is employed in laying out the
whole Country into a Kind of Garden or Land-
skip, and making every thing smile about him,
whilst in Reality he thinks of nothing, but of
the Harvest, and Encrease which is to arise
from it.

We may further observe, how Providen-
ce has taken Care, to keep up this Chearfulness
in the Mind of Men, by having formed it after
such a manner, as to make it capable of concei-
ving Delight from several Objects, which
seem to have very little use in them, as from
Wildness of Rocks and Desarts, and the like
grotesque Parts of Nature. - - and why
has Providence given it a Power of producing
in us such imaginary Qualities, as Tastes and
Colours, Sounds and Smells, Head and Cold,
but that Man, while he is conversant in the
lower Stations of Nature, might have his Mind
cheared and delighted with agreeable sensations?
In short, the whole Universe is a Kind of
Theatre filled with Objects, that either raise in
us Pleasure, Amusement, or Admiration.

nued, and which are always lodged in Flow-
ers or Bloſſoms. Nature ſeems to hide her
principal deſign, and to be induſtrious in making
the Earth gay and delightful, while ſhe is car-
rying on her great Work, and intent upon her
own Preſervation. The Husband-Man after
the ſame Manner is employed in laying out the
whole Country into a Kind of Garden or Land-
skip, and making every thing ſmile about him,
whilſt in Reality he thinks of nothing, but of
the Harveſt, and Encreaſe which is to ariſe
from it.

We may further obſerve, how Providen-
ce has taken Care, to keep up this Chearfulneſs
in the Mind of Men, by having formed it after
ſuch a manner, as to make it capable of concei-
ving Delight from ſeveral Objects, which
ſeem to have very little uſe in them, as from
Wildneſs of Rocks and Deſarts, and the like
grotesque Parts of Nature. ‒ ‒ and why
has Providence given it a Power of producing
in us ſuch imaginary Qualities, as Taſtes and
Colours, Sounds and Smells, Head and Cold,
but that Man, while he is converſant in the
lower Stations of Nature, might have his Mind
cheared and delighted with agreeable ſenſations?
In short, the whole Univerſe is a Kind of
Theatre filled with Objects, that either raiſe in
us Pleaſure, Amuſement, or Admiration.