9'3- 



THE BEE, 



^ OR 



IITERART WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 



FOR 



Wedn£sday, Settember 19 1791. 



an accouxt of the society of arcadia at rome, 

 By abbe tourner. 



Continued from vol. x. p. 200. 



In the republic of Arcadia, as in every otiier esta- 

 Iriifliment calculated for the regulation of human affairs, 

 experience discovered defects that were not foreseen. 

 Great care had been taken to render the laws of Ar- 

 cadia as simple and perfect as pufsible ; and it was 

 hoped they would have tended to preserve unanimity 

 among the fhepherds for a long time ; but this was 

 soon found to be impofsible. As the progrefs of 

 this society exhibits, in miniature, a very exact pic- 

 ture of what may be expected to occur in every other 

 ■undertaking of the same sort, in which regulations, 

 at first simple and easy, become complicated and diffi- 

 cult of execution, it will not prove unentertaining 

 to trace it step by step, with a careful discrimination 

 -of circumstances. 



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