UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



particular reafons for thinking them worthy of 

 their ftudy, to apply to fome good treatife, or 

 to the practice of them , and this we the rather 

 do, as mod of thefe arts and fciences are not the 

 ts of genius, but merely employments of the 

 judgment and the memory : are founded on 

 experience, and conducted by the aid of the 

 mathematics, or fome other fcience of which we 

 have already treated, or clfe are fubordinate to, 

 and make a part of politics. 



II. (i.) Th condutt of a war requires the 

 union of the theory of that art, with the practice. 

 Now as that art is included in thofe which concur 

 in the fcience of government, we have already 

 mentioned, in the chapter on politics, the illuf- 

 trious names of thole great men who have re- 

 duced it to a fyftem, and have laboured in 

 teaching it to the public. It is in thefe fchools 

 that they who are ambitious of (Lining in the 

 rields of Mars, are to feek for inftruction. He 

 only, who joins to a fruitful genius, confummate 

 experience, and a folid theory, dcferves the 



C of a great general. 



III. (2.) The marine^ taking that term in its 

 fi.ll extent, and in the manner which a minifter 

 of that department or an admiral, ought to 

 underfland it, is a fcience that comprehends, and 

 fuppofei a mailerly knowledge of many other 

 arts and fciences. It is divided into four gene- 

 ral pans, which are, i. the knowledge of all 



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