ON SCHOOLS, &c. 409 



lions that are the natural confequences, it is be- 

 come a refidence too noify, and too feducing for 

 the mufes. Other nations have, moreover, im- 

 proved on the plan of the univerfity of Paris. 

 Or" all the univcrfities of Europe, thofe of Ox- 

 ford and Cambridge in England appear at pre- 

 fcnt to approach the neareft to perfection. The 

 great men they produce arc a better proof than 

 any other argument. We could wifh always to 

 fee an univerfity a real city of learning , a place 

 confecrated entirely to the mufes and their dif- 

 ciples , that the Greek and Latin languages were 

 there predominant , and that every thing were 

 banifhed from thence which could caufe the 

 leaft diffipation in thofe who devote themfelves 

 to letters. 



VIII. We (hall fay nothing here of public 

 libraries, anatomical theatres, printing-houfes^ 

 and other like eftablifhments which ought to be 

 found in an univerfity ; nor of the regulations 

 and difcipline that are there to be obferved. 

 We have treated on thefe matters in our Poli- 

 tical Inflitutes, vol. i. chap. iv. the twelfth and 

 following feftions , to which we refer the 

 reader. 



IX. Literary focitties are afTemblies of men 

 drawn together by the love of letters -, who are 

 united in the cultivating of fome particular 

 parts of fcience ; who make all their feveral la- 

 bours tend to one determinate point ; who are 



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