172 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



fubjeft into a true fyftem, and has made a fe-i 

 parate fcience of it, under the title of Statiftics ; 

 and which he profefies with great reputation : 

 a fcience from which hiftory borrows great 

 lights 5 which furnifhes the beft materials for 

 the conftitution of a Hate, which enriches po- 

 litics, and which prepares thofe of the brighteft 

 genius among the ftudious youth, to become 

 one day able minifters of the (late. 



V. All that occurs in a flate is not worthy of 

 remark, but all that is worthy of remark in a 

 Hate, enters necefiarily into ftatiilics. This fci- 

 ence begins therefore by making, i. An exa6t 

 divifion of the four parts of the world, and 

 fhows into how many Hates, nations, monarchies, 

 republics, and leffer governments, each of thefe 

 parts is divided. It is fcarce necefiary to ob- 

 ferve, that the knowledge of the Hates which 

 belong to Europe are the mofl important. 



2. It proceeds to the examen of each parti- 

 cular flate, and of its revolutions , and here it 

 has an efpecial regard, i. to the principal e- 

 pochs-, 2. to the changes that have occurred in 

 the form of government ; 3. to the provinces 

 that have been conquered or acquired by a Hate, 

 or that have been difmembered from it, and 4. 

 to the hereditary governments, and the altera- 

 tions that have happened in families. 



VI. Each 



