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buildings, and all the monuments of their luxury, 

 which are the veiy rocks on which they perifhed. 

 See, to what our ftudies, and our patriotifm, are 

 leading us. If pofterity is taken up with the 

 Ancients, it is becaufe the Ancients laboured for 

 pofterity : but if we do nothing for ours, alTur- 

 edly they will pay no attention to us. They will 

 talk inceflantly, as we do, about the Greeks and 

 Romans, without wafting a lingle thought upon 

 their fathers. 



Inftead of falling into rapture?, over Greek and" 

 Roman Medallions, half devoured by the teeth of 

 Time, would it not be fully as agreeable, and much 

 more ufeful, to direft our views, and employ our 

 conjecftures, on the fubjeâ: of our frelh, lively, 

 plump children, and to try to difcover in their fe- 

 veral inclinations, who are to be the future co-ope- 

 rators in the fervice of their Country ^ Thofe who, 

 in their childifh fports, are fond of building, will 

 one day rear her monuments. Among thofe who 

 take delight in managing their boyifli fkirmiflies, 

 will be formed the Epaminondafes and the Scipios of 

 future times, Thofe who are feated upon the grafs, 

 the calm fpedators of the fports of their compa- 

 nions, will, in due time, become excellent Magi- 

 ftrates, and Philofophers, the complete mafters of 

 their own paffions. Thof who, in their reftlefs 

 courfe, love to withdraw from the reft, will be 



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