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nobler object in their view, at once. Hence, 
their minds have been extended to a complex 
whole> the fil'd faint outline of which, they have, 
by flow degrees of patient labour, finifhed into 
form and beauty. Hence, almod all our late 
machines have been invented, in a part of the 
country, where the date of the Arts is not greatly 
improved, and where original genius is not 
minced down, to the Ihreds and atoms of a long- 
edablilhed, and widely-extended manufacture. 
It is acknowledged, that mere random genius 
has made adonifhing difcoveries ar,d improve¬ 
ments, without any aid, but that of native laga- 
city. But, on the other hand, how many minds, 
capable, with afiidance and encouragement, of 
producing the happied inventions, have, for 
want of them, pined in obfcurity, lod to the 
world, and incapable of any great atchievement ? 
And, we may afk, what might fuch genius have 
atchieved, if fodered by fcience, by liberality, 
and by honour!* What Brindley executed by 
* But knowledge to their eye, her ample page. 
Rich with the fpoils of time, did ne’er unroll; 
Chill penury rcprefled their noble rage, 
And froze the genial current of their foul. 
Full many a gem, of pureft ray ferene, 
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear; 
Full many a flower is born to blulh, unfeen. 
And walle its fweetnefs on the defart air. 
Gray’s Church Yard. 
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