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to the pursuit of another, in a chain whose beginning 

 is no where, and whose links are every where, after 

 the nature of that infinite and perfect Being in 

 whom we live, and move, and have our existence, aud 

 whom we can only resemble when we raise ourselves 

 above the range of brutal enjoyment. 



2d/y, In the pleasure derived from the ■^contempla- 

 tion of order ; and of order amid variety. 3fl'/y, In 

 the pleasure arising from symmetry or of fitnefs 

 and utility. »,thly. In the pleasure that arises from 

 contrast, ^thly, From surprise, terminating in a 

 scientific acquaintance with the cause from whence it 

 arose. 6thLy, In delicacy of sensation which enables - 

 us to feast on the graces that are evanescent or impal- 

 pable to the eye and apprehension of the sensualist. 

 And finally, in the complete establilhment of the habit 

 of intellectual desireuncontrouled by vulgar appetite, 

 or enervated by idlenefs and sloth. 



Now, it is evident, that as a nation, or what we 

 call, in the most extensive acceptation of the word, 

 the public, is no more than the aggregate of indivi- 

 duals, families, and communities, so whatever can 

 render the parts more perfect, must tend to the per- 

 fection and happinefs of the whole. 



But the subject is so delightful and important, that 

 I fhall be easily forgiven when I fhall have traced 

 the more immediate effects that must be produced 

 upon the active powers of government, and upon a 

 people at large, by the difsemination of that taste 

 Avhich is the subject of my present discourse. 



It was undoubtedly to the difsemination of taste 



