lyS STUDIES OF NATURE. 



of the State, would exert themfelves, to the utter- 

 moft, to maintain it. 



Thefe caufes, and many others, divide, among 

 us, all the different claffes of the Nation. There is 

 not a fingle province, city, village, but what di- 

 ftinguifhes the province, city, village, next to it, 

 by fome injurious and infulting epithet. The fame 

 remark applies to the various ranks and conditions 

 of Society. Divide & iwpera, Divide and govern, 

 fay our modern Politicians. This maxim has 

 ruined Italy, the country from whence it came. 

 The oppolite maxim contains much more truth. 

 The more united citizens are, the more powerful 

 and happy is the Nation which they compofe. At 

 Rome, at Sparta, at Athens, a citizen was at once 

 advocate, fenator, pontiff, edile, hufbandman, war- 

 rior, and even feaman. Obferve to what a height 

 of power thofe republics advanced. Their citizens 

 were, however, far inferior to us in refped of ge- 

 neral knowledge, but they were inftrufted in two 

 great Sciences, of which we are ignorant, namely, 

 the love of the Gods, and of their Country. With 

 thefe fubUme fentiments, they were prepared for 

 every thing. Where they are wanting, Man is 

 good for nothing. With all our encyclopedic li- 

 terature, a great man with us, even in point of ta- 

 lents, would be but the fourth part, at moft, of a 

 Greek or a Roman. He would diflinguifh himfelf 

 ' much 



