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and not only they do not fee the wonderful produdlions of mind in 

 the heaven and earth, but they carry about with them their own 

 mind for many years, I may fay all their lives, without ever look- 

 ing into it, or fludying what is going on in it; fo that they may 

 be faid to be perfect ftrangers at home, and entirely ignorant of the 

 mofl: valuable of all knowledge, that of mind. 



And here we may obferve one advantage of money or wealth,, 

 among many mifchiefs which it produces; for a man muft have mo- 

 ney, in order to enable him to enjoy leifure, without being conftantly 

 employed in the common bufuiefs of life: For this a very mo-^ 

 derate fortune will fuffice. But there is another thing as neceflary 

 as money for the enjoyment of leifure; and that is to know how to 

 employ it. If he does not know that, he falls into a fore difeafe, 

 which the French call enniii^ and which, as it is a lafting and lin-- 

 gering difeafe, makes a man, I believe, more miferable than perhaps 

 any other ; for it is a difeafe of our mind or better \)i\n. It is the. 

 fource of almofl: every vice and folly; for a man, who does not know 

 what elfe to do, will do any thing rather than do nothing; and I main- 

 tain, that the richeft man, who is haunted by \K\%foulJund^ as it may 

 be called, is a much more unhappy man than the day labourer wha 

 earns his daily bread by the fweat of his brow, and who, therefore^ 

 only fubmitts to the fentence pronounced upon our lirft parents af- 

 ter their fall, and which, if it be underftood, as I think it ought to 

 be, of the labour of the mind as well as of the body, we muft all 

 fubmit to, or be miferable if we do not. And, accordingly, thofe, 

 who can find nothing to do, endeavour to fly from themfelves; and- 

 many of them fly from their country, and go abroad, for no other 

 reafbn ; 



Fruftraj nam comes atra premit fequiturque fugacem*. 



And fomc of them, I believe, go out of life for no other reafon, (and 



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* Horat. Lib. 2. Sat. 7. 



