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that any higher degrees of liberal fcience are 

 incompatible with bufinefs ! A feverer libel upon 

 trade could not pofTibly be uttered ! If it were 

 true, who would not wifh to abate a little of the 

 qualifications of the mere tradefman, in order to 

 enjoy the more refpedable ornaments, of know- 

 ledge, and mental cultivation ? — But there are 

 many examples in Manchester — and we point 

 to them with pride and pleafure, — of the union 

 of a tafte for literature, with every neceflary and 

 defirable requifite for aftive and fuccefsful com- 

 merce. "Who does not wifh to fee the number 

 of/uch £hara£fers multiplied among us ? Who 

 would not rejoice, thus to confute that degrading 

 maxim, that commerce only ferves to enfeeble 

 and contract the nobleft powers of the human 

 mind * 



But, 



* In the Memoirs of Albert de Haller, M. D. lately 

 publiihed by Mr. Henry, we are told, page 119, "That 

 he laid a plan for a fchool, defigned for the education 

 of the opulent citizens; where they might be qualified 

 to fill the principal offices of the republic, and might 

 be inllrucled, not fo much in thofe points, which the 

 grammarians of the feventeenth century efteemed the 

 nioft eflential branche? of education, as in thofe, which 

 the philofophers and men of learning of the prefent age 

 have judged to be eflential to the interefts of humanity."— 

 This was at Berne, a place fupported by arts, manu- 

 factures, and commerce. 



In the inllruftions lately Iffued from the Lord Lieu- 

 tenant of Ireland, to the Earl of Tyrone, &c. to confult 



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