STUDY XIII. aS^ 



playing, would attraft crowds of rich flrangers to 

 Paris. They refort hither already to live in it, 

 they would then flock hither to die among us. 

 They would endeavour to deferve well of a Na- 

 tion become the arbiter of the virtues of Europe, 

 and to acquire a lafl. alykim, in the holy land of 

 this Elyfium ; where all virtuous and beneficent 

 men would be reputed citizens. This eftablifh- 

 ment, which might be formed, undoubtedly, in a 

 manner very fuperior to the feeble fketch which I 

 have prefented of it, would ferve to bring the 

 higher conditions of life into contad: with the 

 lower, much better than our churches themfelves, 

 into which avarice and ambition frequently intro- 

 duce among the citizens, diftindions more humi- 

 liating, than are to be met with even in Society. 

 It would allure foreigners to the Capital, by hold- 

 ing out to them the rights of a citizenfliip illuftri- 

 ous and immortal. It would unite, in a word, 

 Religion to Patriotifm^ and Patriotifm to Religion, 

 the mutual bonds of which are on the point of 

 being torn afunder. 



It is not neceflary for me to fubjoin, that this 

 eftablilhment would be attended with no expenfe 

 to the State. It might be reared, and kept up, by 

 the revenue of fome rich abbey, as it would be con- 

 fecrated to Religion, and to the rewards cf virtue. 

 There is no reafon why it ihould become, like the 



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