402 UNIVERSAL ERUDITION. 



fmce the firft invention of printing. There is 

 a religion in the world which produces fingular 

 and very fatal effects of this nature. We will 

 by no means name it, but let a book be wrote 

 on any fubject whatever, we will engage to 

 tell at any time, whether the author was edu- 

 cated in that religion or not ; for there are con- 

 ftantly to be feen fome traces of conftraint, and 

 ofcertain prejudices imbibed in early days. 



CHAP. XXV. 



DIGRESSION onScHooLS, 

 COLLEGES, UNIVERSITIES, 

 and ACADEMIES. 



THE man who confines himfelf to his 

 clofet is but rarely vifited by the fci- 

 ences, the arts and belles lettres. To ac- 

 quire their intimate acquaintance he muft feek 

 them in thofe places where Minerva, Pallas, 

 Apollo and the Mufes, ha,ve fixed their refi- 



dence.' 



