^i5 on scienti^c government. Feb-. 29;, 



Oaths on frivolous occasions, to be abolifhed. 



Agriculture, as the foundation of national prospe- 

 rity, to be encouraged, and rendered honourable. 



No man to suffer infamy, or lofs by the infamy^ 

 or crimes of his ancestors^ or relations. 



Tliese, Sir, and other institutions, connected with: 

 the principles upon which they were enacted, do 

 sufficiently evince, that the aera of scientific gqvern^ 

 ment has arrived. Governments have been formed 

 in America, and in France, upon the everlasting foun- 

 dations of justice and truth ; not as formerly, by colli- 

 sion of interests, and a jumble of fortuitous inci- 

 dents, and by political and religious rage. 



The power and wealth of the priesthood have beeiy 

 reduced to a standard, consistent with the good of 

 the state. 



The torture has been abolifhed, and sla^-ery, not- 

 withstanding the vile example of Britain, will be a- 

 boliflied in France as it has been in America. 



The liberty of the prefs secured. 



Wars of conquest and plunder prevented, 



A system, formed in Europe, for a perpetual con— 

 grefs of deputies from the various states, to deter- 

 mine disputes, and thereby prevent expensive, bloody,, 

 and uselefs v/ars, on account of commercial or terri- 

 torial differences. 



An uniformity of general commercial laws. 



And an uniformity of weights and measures all 

 over the world. 



No fhelter to be given to criminals in any foreign 

 state^. 



