Il6 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



If it be delightful to acquire knowledge, it is 

 much more delightful ftill to diffufe it. The 

 nobleft reward of Science is the pleafure of the 

 ignorant man inftrufled. What a fublime fatis- 

 fadtion (hould it be to us, to enjoy their joy, to 

 behold their dances in our public fquares, and to 

 hear the drums of the Tartar, and the ivory cornet 

 of the Negro re-echo round the flatues of our 

 Kings ! Ah, if we were good, I figure them, to 

 myfelf, ftruck with aftonifliment and forrow, at 

 the exceffive and unhappy populoufnefs of our 

 cities, inviting us to fpread ourfelves over their 

 folitudes, to contract marriages with them, and by 

 new alliances to re-unite the branches of the Hu- 

 man Race, which are unhappily feparating farther 

 and farther, and which national prejudices dif- 

 unite ftill more than Ages and Climates ! 



Alas ! bleflings have been given us in common, 

 and we communicate to each other only the ills of 

 life. Man is every where complaining of the 

 want of land, and the Globe is covered with de- 

 ferts. Man alone is expofed to famine, while the 

 animal creation, down to infects, are wallowing in 

 plenty. Almoft every where he is the ilave of his 

 equal, while the feebleft of animals maintain their 

 liberty againft the ftrongeft. Nature, who de- 

 figned him for love, denied him arms, and he has 

 forged them for himfelf, to combat his fellow. She 



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