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the laws by which we are bound, appears effential in a courfe 
of liberal education, | 
In men whom noble birth or perfonal intereft holds forth 
as candidates for the rank of Jegiflators, the want of full in- 
formation upon thefe fubjeéts is not to be pardoned, 
Or political knowledge there are two kinds, without poflefiing 
a competent fhare of which no fenator can difcharge wifely or 
confcientioufly the truft repofed in him by his country; a 
knowledge of conftitutional, and of commercial policy. To 
maintain the conftitution by the fupport of government, the 
prefervation of order, and the prote@ion of liberty ; and to 
augment national opulence by the encouragement of manufac- 
tures and the extenfion of trade are the grand objects of par- 
liamentary deliberation. But is it poflible that men can be 
qualified to make conftitutional and commercial laws to bind 
a nation, without ever having ftudied the principles of confti- 
tutional or commercial policy? And with what pretenfions to 
honefty or even decency can men think of aflembling for this 
purpofe without thefe qualifications? 
Lastty, the education of men defigned for the higher walks 
of life cannot be complete without fome acquaintance with 
the hiftory of nature, a fubject neither lefs interefting nor lefs 
important than the hiftory of man. ‘The properties of the 
bedies which furround us, and with which we are every 
moment of our lives converfant, are more or lef known 
by every perfon. But the man of good education knows 
(i2) philofophically, 
