474 On Learning and the Aris. 
is NO necessary connection between the arts and 
luxury, and the arts, in what degree they may be 
required to minister to luxury, ask little, very 
little, aid from learning. 
Perhaps Rousseau had no view to honest truth 
in this celebrated essay, but by a bold singularity 
to raise himself into general notice. Had truth 
been his object, he could not have avoided to 
observe, what must strike the common mind, that 
the appetites and tastes of men are the parents 
of Juxury, and that wealth, ora supply of what 
wealth purchases, is the nurse of luxury. Where- 
ever or whenever these two are found to be co- 
existent, luxury in a greater or less degree will 
be found to exist also. These may be co-existent, 
and to any extent, and have os existed, without 
any thing of what answers to the scientific arts of 
modern Europe, — 
