TRAVELLING, &c. 7 



without experience can do nothing -, being no- 

 thing, but the mere dreams, phantafms, and 

 meteors of ingenious men who abufe their 

 time. The antients certainly did not, any- 

 more than we, bring experience into the world 

 with them. There is need of much diligence 

 and labor, before man can be thoroughly in- 

 ftru6ted. Diofcorides confefles, that he under- 

 took many journies in order to increafe expe- 

 rience ; and the other fathers of phyfic in their 

 writings frequently make mention of their 

 travels either exprefsly or tacitly. 



Academies were inilituted to the end, that 

 men well verfed in all kinds of literature, and 

 enriched befides by much experience, mighc 

 be invited thither, and that the youth, who 

 were ambitious of becoming learned, might 

 flock together to thofe feats ; and have the 

 advantage of improving no lefs by the expe- 

 rience, than by the erudition of the profefTors; 

 and thefe qualifications combined together, 

 which is of all alliances the moil pleafing, 

 very juflly deferve the utmoft veneration and 

 refpedl. 



Vail and fumptuous libraries are ere(^ed in 



academies •, in which the obfervations of the 



learned, like fo many legacies, and donations, 



B 4 are 



