îSô STUDIES OF NATURE. 



of every battle. In his name it was that the poor 

 Americans were exterminated. The God of Eu- 

 rope is clothed with terror, and devoutly adored. 

 But where are the altars of the God of Peace, of 

 the Father of Mankind, of Him who proclaims the 

 glad tidings of the Gofpel ? Let our modern Po- 

 liticians trumpet their own applaufe, on the happy 

 fruits of thofe divifions, and of an education dic- 

 tated by ambition. Human life, fo fleeting and 

 fo wretched, pafles away in this unremitting ftrife; 

 and while the Hiftorians of every Nation, well paid 

 for their trouble, are extolling to Heaven the vic- 

 tories of their Kings and of their Pontiffs, the 

 People are addrefllng themfelves, in tears, to the 

 GoD of the Human Race, and afking of Him the 

 way in which they ought to walk, in order to 

 reach his habitation at length, and to live a life of 

 virtue and happinefs upon the earth. 



The caufe of the ills which we endure, I repeat 

 it, is to be found in our vain-glorious Education j 

 and in the wretchednefs of the commonalty, which 

 communicates a powerful influence to every new 

 opinion, becaufe they are ever expedling from no- 

 velty fome mitigation of the preflure of inveterate 

 woes. But as foon as they perceive that their opi- 

 nions become tyrannical, in their turn, they pre- 

 fently renounce them : and this is the origin of 

 their levity. Whenever they can find the means 



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