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mory, invention, combination, reasoning; to the physical 

 powers, which are momentarily put in action, at their re- 

 quisition; and to his feelings, also, of love, hate, joy, and 

 gratitude. Various moral causes, therefore, will concur, 

 to render these arts more or less necessary to the happi- 

 ness of men; aiid to produce a more or less successful 

 exercise of them. Tlie one is not always so much the 

 necessary concomitant of the other, as we might expect. 

 It does not follow, that, because men pursue with eager- 

 ness the ^ne arts, and find them necessary to their happi- 

 ness, they should excel in them. We find inveterate scrib- 

 blers, in poetry: execrable performers, in music: and mise- 

 rable daubers, in painting ; who delight themselves, as nmch 

 as they'ahnoy the rest of the world. The villas and im- 

 provements of many a citizen, and many another person, 

 with a vulgar taste, may shew us, that an ardent love 

 for the arts, may not always be joined with a true taste 

 for exercising or employing them. 



^ ^"The successful cultivation ofthej^ne arts, requires many 

 combined particulars, as a foundation; a happy disposi- 

 tion of the human mind, a desire to be pleased, a cul- 

 tivation of the human intellect, and a full possession of 

 all its powers — -memory — taste — fancy — judgment — reason; 

 and the attainment of knowledge, to profit by the dis- 

 ' coveries of past times, to perform certain Works^ whether 

 rherital or physical, with certainty and precision, and with 

 the least possible labour, delay, and expence. In this 

 chiefly consists,.,tJ[ie ditfqrence, between^ the efforts of po- 

 lished 



