ADVERTISEMENT, XXV 



families, and on national felicity, from what I have 

 feen in iome Pruffian families, where you find, in 

 general, domeftics zealous, atfedionate, refpeélful, 

 and attached to their mailers ; for they are born, 

 they marry, and they die in the houfe of the maf- 

 ter ; and you frequently find under the fame roof 

 a fiiccefiion of fathers and fons, who have been 

 mafters and fervants for two or three centuries fuc- 

 ceffively. 



Once more, if I have been fomewhat diffufe on 

 the diforders and intolerance of AfTociations, I 

 have refpefted States j I have attacked particular 

 bodies of men, in the view of defending my coun- 

 try, and above all, in fupporting the corps of 

 Humanity. Of this we are all members in par- 

 ticular. But GOD forbid that 1 fliould think of 

 giving a moment's pain to any one individual 

 polfeiTed of fenfibility : I who have 'iflumed the 

 pen, only to fupport the motto prefixed to my 

 Work ; Miferis fiiccurrere difco ; [the experience of 

 mijery has taught me to fuccour the mijerable.) 



My dear Reader, whatever, then, may be your 

 fituation in life, I (hall cheerfully fubmit to your 

 decifion, if you judge me as a man, in a Work 

 whofe leading objeâ: is the happinefs of Mankind. 

 If, on the other hand, I have attained the glory 

 of communicating to you fome new pleafures, and 



of 



