ffgi. on scientific governmeaf. JiT" 



Thus, Sir, have I endeavoured slightly to fltetch' 

 riie outlines of that scientific system of government, 

 which seems likely to be establiflied for the happi- 

 nefs of future generations ; and fliall conclude this 

 letter, by an extract from a writer who has been an 

 old, sincere, and useful friend to its accomplifh- 

 ment. 



*' The great instrument in the hand of divine provi- 

 dence, for the progrefs of mankind towards perfec-^ 

 tion, is society, and consequently government. In rr- 

 state of nature, the powers of any individual are dif- 

 s'pated by an attention to a multiplicity of objects. 

 The employments of all are similar. From genera- 

 tion to generation, every man does the same that 

 every other does, or has done, and no person begins 

 where another has ended ; at least general improve- 

 ments are exceedingly slow and uncertain. Where- 

 as a state of more perfect society admits of a proper 

 distribution and division of the objects of human at- 

 tention. In such a state, men are connected with, 

 and subservient to one another ; so that, while one 

 man confines himself to one single objec*t, another 

 may give the same undivided attention to another 

 ebject. Thus the powers of all have their full' ef- 

 fect ; and hence arise improvements in all the con- 

 veniencies of life, and in every branch of knowledge. 

 In this state of things, it requires but a few years to 

 eompreiiend the whole preceding progrefs of any- 

 one art or science ; and the rest of a man's life, in 

 which iiis faculties may be the most perfect, may be 

 dedicated to the extension of it. If, by this means, 

 one art or science fhould grow too large for an.eas^ 



