îgS STUDIES OF NATURE. 



" rals of the young, and made them fuck in, with 

 " the milk from their nurfe's breaft, the love of 

 '* his Laws and Inftitutions." 



Here is a decifion, which completely condemns 

 OLir mode of education, by pronouncing the elo- 

 gium of that of Sparta. 1 do not hefitate a (ingle 

 moment to afcribe to our modern education, the 

 reftlefs, ambitious, fpiteful, pragmatical, and into- 

 lerant fpirit of moft Europeans. The effefts of it: 

 are vifible in the miferies of the Nations. It is re- 

 markable, that thofe which have been moft agi- 

 tated internally and externally, are precifely the 

 Nations among which our boafted ftyle of educa- 

 tion has flouriûied the moft. The truth of this 

 may be afcertained, by ftepping from country to 

 country, from age to age. Politicians have imar 

 gined, that they could difcern the caufe of public 

 misfortunes in the different forms of Government. 

 But Turkey is quiet, and England is frequently in 

 a ftate of agitation. All political forms are indif- 

 ferent to the happinefs of a State, as has been 

 faid, provided the People are happy. We might 

 have added, and provided the children are fo like^ 

 wife 



The Philofopher Lalouhre, Envoy from Louis 

 XIV. to Siam, fays, in the account which he gives 

 of his miffion, that the Afiatics laugh us to fcorn, 



when 



