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undeniable evidences of the vast superiority of the 
agricultural system of employment, over the com- 
mercial and manufacturing system, which is so much 
the idol of worfhip by the people in Europe; and 
which necefsarily leads to foreign wars and devas- 
tations, internal tumults and disorders. Maf- 
sacres, conquests, revolutions, without end, are the 
accompanyments of the one, while unabating peace, 
tranquillity, and happinefs, are the result of the 
other. a th 
ANECDOTE, 
Ay astrologer in the time of Lewis x1 extricated 
himself very ingeniously from danger. He had fore- 
told to the king, that a lady whom he loved fhould 
die in eight days: which “having happened, the 
prince caused the astrologer to be brought before 
him, and commanded his servants not to fail to throw 
him out at the window, at a signal which he would 
give them. As soon as the king saw him: ‘* You 
who pretend to be such a wise man,” says he to him, 
«and who knows so exactly the fate of others, tell 
me this moment, what will be yours, and how long 
_you have yet to live?” Whether it was that the 
astrologer had been secretly informed of the design 
of the king, or that he guefsed it: ‘ Sire,’ answered he, 
without testifying any fear, ‘I fhalt die just three 
days before your majesty.’ The king, after that 
answer, was not in haste to give the signal for them 
to throw him out ofthe window ;—on the contrary 
he took particular care to let him want for no- 
thing, 
