12 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



ticular, whom they obferved to weep every time 

 he law a woman with a child in her arms ; hence 

 they conjectured that this unfortunate man was a 

 father. The gentlenefs of domeftic education, 

 undoubtedly, thus powerfully attaches thole poor 

 people to the place of their birth. It was this 

 which infpired the Greeks and Romans with (o 

 much courage in the defence of their Country. 

 The lentiment of innocence ftrengthens the love of 

 it, becaufe it brings back all the affecftions of early 

 life, pure, facred, and incorruptible. Virgil was 

 well acquainted with the effeft of this fentiment, 

 when he puts into the mouth of Nifns, who was 

 diffuading Enryalns from undertaking a nodurnal 

 expedition, fraught with danger, thofe affecting 

 words : 



Te fuperefTe velim : tua vita dignior œtas. 



If thou furvive me, I fliall die content : 

 Tliv tender ag[e deferves the lonoer life. 



But among Nations with whom infancy is ren- 

 dered miferable, and is corrupted by irkfome, fe- 

 rocious, and unnatural education, there is no more 

 love ot Country than there is of innocence. This 

 is one of the caufes which fends fo many Euro- 

 peans a-raoibling over the World, and which ac- 

 counts for our having fo few modern monuments 

 in Europe, becaufe the next generation never fails 



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