lusts, to wh ‘In such a state he is so p eg .% f 
» which i in suc state are almot nc to’sups 
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the mind vacant to laxury,and lust; this is i 
the constitution of human nature, nd is een a 
in the constant history of nationaliand anes " 
man. A field of active exeption is therefore p " 
- vided for man as his refuge ; it, a better” ' 
direction to his mind ; it arouses hi ‘from that » 
listless repose, in which he has nothing tovbrood od wf 
upon but the indulgence of his Te a » * 
port the burthenof existence. Hunting and war 
alone can rouse the savage to action, and poe 
is more temperate and abstemious than the phi 
sopher or the hermit. The inexhausted allure- fh 
ments of scientific pursuit or the activity of the . 
arts provide a more constant and salutary refuge 
to a civilized and wealthy nation a sae! 
devouring passions and lusts, . 
Science ‘and the arts are therefore ue prow 
~ perly the moral friend and guardian of man ; they 
may minister ‘to some of the productions whith a 
_Tuxurious and corrupt mind seizes upon, but they 
are innocent of the misuse, they neither suggest 4 
nor favour the misuse. The earth itself produces : 
avery considerable part of the food of laxurys 
Is the earth to be accused as the criminahminister 
of luxury 2» The earth and science and the arts 
are all liberal in their gifts to man ; these gifts 
are in tages directed to utility and to 
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