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Jubftfting between the Arts. 
. Whatever truth there may appear to be in this 
fentiment, in Tome uncommon inftances, I per- 
fuade myfelf, it will not, in general, accord with 
experience. Though every man Ihould have 
fome one oeject continually in view, to which 
he Ihould refer all his knowledge, and by which 
he fhould diredt all his ftudies; yet, with this 
aim, let him rove abroad, through the various 
walks of literature. He will, probably, meet 
with many things, which he will now apply, 
with great advantage, to his main fubjedt, and by 
which he may illuftrate, embellifh, or extend it. 
General Science, with this particular application, 
colledls the fcattered rays, refledled from a thou- 
fand objedls, into one focus, and blends all the 
variegated colours of the rainbow, into one 
white, and luminous point. Whatever praife 
may, in particular cafes, have been given to the 
man, who has travelled only in one path of Science, 
his ideas mud necefifarily be very confined, and 
he will, probably, fall under the charge of 
pedantry, and affedlation. The Sciences are 
fillers, affeftionate fillers ! and, as the Roman 
Orator, in our motto, has beautifully exprefied 
it, “ Quafi cognatione quadam inter fe continen- 
tur.” To be in the good graces of any one of 
them, you mull pay fome refpedtful attention to 
the reft. 
General knowledge, like the general motion 
of the various limbs of the body, gives an agility 
and 
