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CHAPTER III. 



The Arts 01 Empire en State Policy omitted. Two Deficiencies alone 

 noticed. The Art ci Enlarging the Bounds ol Empire, and the 

 Knowledge of Universal Justice drawn from the Fountains of Law. 



WE come now to the art of empire, or the doctrine of 

 governing a state, which includes economics, a a city in 

 cludes a family. But here, according to my former reso 

 lution, I impose silence upon myself; how well qualified 

 soever I might seem to treat the subject, from the constant 

 course of life, studies, employs, and the public posts I have, 

 for a long series of years, sustained, even to the highest 

 in the kingdom, which, through his majesty s favour, and no 

 merit of my own, I held for four years. And this I speak 

 to posterity, not out of ostentation; but because I judge it 

 may somewhat import the dignity of learning, to have a man 

 born for letters rather than anything else, who should, by 

 a certain fatality, and against the bent of his genius, be com 

 pelled into active life, and yet be raised, by a prudent king, 

 to the greatest posts of honour, trust, and civil employ. 

 And if I should hereafter have leisure to write upon govern 

 ment, the work will probably either be posthumous or abor 

 tive. But in the mean time, having now seated all the 

 sciences, each in its proper r&amp;gt;lace, lest such a high chair as 

 that of government should remain absolutely vacant, we here 

 observe, that two parts of civil doctrine, though belonging 

 not to the secrets of state, but of a more open and vulgar 

 nature, are deficient, and shall, therefore, in our manner, 

 give specimens for supplying them. 



The art of government includes the political offices ; viz., 

 1. the preservation ; 2. the happiness; and 3. the enlarge* 

 ment of a state. The two former have, in good measure, 

 been excellently treated by some ; a but there ia nothing 

 extant upon the last ; which we, therefore, note as deficient, 

 and propose the following sketch, by way of example, for 

 supplying it, under the title of the Military Statesman, or the 

 Doctrine of extending the Bounds of Empire. 



For an account of these authors, see Morhofs &quot;Polyhi.st.&quot; torn. iii. 

 De Prndentire Civilis Scriptoribus ; and &quot; Stollii Jntroduct. in Hist. Li- 

 terar.&quot; cap. v. De Pru^entia Politica. 



