i28 On the Beats of Mr. Haw ke’s Douxedve. 
it join the knowledge of the architect with that of the joinef 
and the apothecary? it may surcharge its hist of repetitions, 
and will have seeu but a part of what it searches ; for the 
arts are far from embracing all the objects of mature. It 
will overstep its measure in certain cases, while that in 
others it will not have done enough to attain it; that is 
to say, it will totally fail of its end. 
But what shall we say is the utility of philosophy, if 
the arts can exist without it?) What aré its functions? and 
why this scaffolding of principles when empiricism alone 
can suffice our wants? 
It is in stripping truth of the deceptive ¢ cover under which 
ignorance has disguised it, that philosophy renders it recog- 
nisable. If it goes to consttt in their workshops those 
who have lived only with the immedtate objects of their 
labour ; if it questions them on all the advantages which 
may be derived, and on the process which they employ to 
incline them to the good of society; if it passes to those 
who conceive that the universe finishes where their art finds 
no more resources, or with those who seek the materials 
which they require in a more extended world, it is in order 
to collect all that is scatttered among one and another; it iss 
to prune what is superfluous, and to determine what ig 
worthy to be preserved. It is philosophy which ilumines 
the mind, and gives brilliancy to the true light which shoulde 
guide its progress. It marks to the imagination the true 
point where the judgement stops, and beyond which illu- 
sions mislead it; and if among the phantoms of an exalted 
mind it perceives some real beings, it assigns to the latter 
the place which is destined for them in the catalogue of 
buman knowledge. 
Tt is thus that philosophy has elevated some arts to the 
rank of sciences, that it has perfected some others, and 
that it protects all against the oversights of ignorance, the 
attacks of barbarism, and the lapse of ages. The arr 
which has deposited its principles in the archives of phi- 
losophiy will not perish but with it. 
XXIII. On the Beats of Mr. Hawke’s Douzeave, or common 
System of Twelve musical Notes. By a CORRESPONDENT. 
To Mr. Tilloch. 
Sir, Since I find that the Rev. C. J. Smyth is engaged in’ 
calculating and sending you the beats of different Systems’ 
of Tuning, I am desirous of contributing my mite im send~ 
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