OF SAMUEL HARTLTB. 17 



Utopia of Sir Thomas More, and the Atlantis of Lord 

 Bacon. Alluding to this fiction in a letter addressed to 

 Dr. Worthington, dated Jan. 30, 1659, he casually ob- 

 serves : — " I hope that Macaeia will have a more visible 

 form before " certain political matters named, " and then 

 he shall need none other additional patronage." 



This remark has reference to a proposed institution, 

 on which Mr. Crossley notes : "Macaria (from naKapiog, 

 blessed or happy) was the name of an intended society, 

 the establishment of which, Hartlib appears to have 

 been confidently expecting at this period. It was to 

 unite the great, the wealthy, the religious, and the 

 philosophical, and to form a common centre for assist- 

 ing and promoting all undertakings in the support 

 of which mankind was interested." He earnestly 

 endeavoured to organise the proposed project, and 

 truly "he lived in the magnificent scheme which his 

 ardent philanthropy had planned." 



Writing to the Honourable Eobert Boyle he inci- 

 dentally remarks on the same subject: — "The truth 

 is, I design all such and the like works or tracts 

 (named in his letter) to be printed upon the charges 

 of Macaria, whose scope it is most professedly to 

 propagate religion and to endeavour the reformation 

 of the whole world. But it is scarce one day (or 

 one hour in the day,) or night, being brim full with 

 all manner of objects of that most public and universal 

 nature, but my soul is crying out : — 



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