S5S NATURAL AND CIVIL 



their minds : But this provides food, raiment, 

 and support for them all. 



In no way, has the glory of nations been more 

 expanded, than by their attainments and dis- 

 coveries in science. The mathematicians have 

 measured, and settled the dimensions of the so- 

 lar system : But the new settler, has in fact, en- 

 larged the bounds of the habitable creation. 

 The philosophers have expanded our minds with 

 the ideas, and evidence, that the other planets 

 are inhabited ; but the simple and honest farmer, 

 has made the earth the place for more inhabitants 

 than it ever had before. And while the astrono- 

 mers are so justly celebrating the discoveries, 

 and the new planet of Herschel, all mankind 

 should rtjoice, that the simple peasant in the 

 wilderness, has found out a way, to make our 

 planet bear more nien. 



Those employments which are the most ne- 

 cessary, and the most useful to men, seem to be 

 the most nearly connected with morality and 

 virtue. Agriculture ap^')ears to be more nearly 

 allied to this, than any of the arts. The maa 

 that is constantly pursuing the business, which 

 nature has assigned to him, seems to have but 

 little to corrupt him. In the many histories of 

 corruption, there is oot any account, that the 

 body of the husbandmen ever became a corrupt, 

 venal, and debauched generation. They must 

 first be led to desert their employments, or they 

 must be blinded and deceived, before they can 

 be made fit tools for politicians to corrupt, and 

 manage. Their profession tends to render them 

 an industrious, hardy, incorrupted, and honest 

 set of men. J»t is never in the body of the 



