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mcnts of the natural Sciences, in which thofe va- 

 rious handicrafts orioinated, the elements of Geo- 

 metry, and the experiments of Natural Philofophy, 

 which have invented nothing in this refpeâ:, but 

 which explain their proceffcs with much pomp and 

 parade. 



I would, likewife, have them made acquainted 

 with the liberal arts, fuch as thofe of drawing, of 

 architedlure, of fortification, not in the view of 

 making painters of them, or architedls, or engi- 

 neers, but to fliew them in what manner their ha- 

 bitation is conftruded, and how their Courttry is 

 defended. I would make them obferve, as an anti- 

 dote to the vanity which the Sciences infpire, that 

 Man, amidft fuch a variety of arts and operations, 

 has imagined no one thing; that he has imitated, 

 in all his productions, either the fkill of the ani- 

 mal creation, or the operations of Nature; that 

 his induftry is a teftimony of the mifery to which 

 he is condemned, whereby he is laid under the ne- 

 cefFity of maintaining an inceflant confliâ: againft 

 the elements, againft hunger and thirft, againft his 

 fellow men, and, what is moft difficult of all, againft 

 himfelf. I would make them fenfible of thefe re- 

 lations of the truths of Religion, with thofe of Na- 

 ture ; and I would thus difpofe them to love the 

 clafs of ufeful men, who are continually providing 

 for their wants. 



z c» I would 



