DIGRESSIONS on CRITICISM, &c. 443 



in an univerfal library. The works of the cri- 

 tics, and the bibliotheques, for every art and 

 fcience, will inform him of the names of all the 

 celebrated authors who have wrote on each fub- 

 jecl. Every man of letters has commonly fome 

 employment, fome flation in fociety, or fomc 

 kind of ftudy to which he is particularly attach- 

 ed. It is very natural for a principal part of his 

 library to confift of books relative to his pro- 

 feffion or his favourite ftudy. Thus a prince's 

 library (hould contain the bed authors on poli- 

 tics , and that of a man of literature of the moft 

 celebrated critics. For the reft, thofe books, 

 which contain inftru&ions for forming a library are 

 fo very common that we may fafely refer the read- 

 er to them , barely adding, that the continual 

 efforts of the learned to enrich the literary world 

 with new productions, caufes daily alterations in 

 thefe plans, fo that a bibliotheque,which appeared 

 very complete at the beginning of this century, 

 is very far from being fo now. Whoever would 

 collect a judicious and ufeful library, fhould cer- 

 tainly confult the beft journalifts, and endeavour 

 to felect fuch works as appear the moft excellent 

 in the republic of letters, and confequcm! 

 library will incrcafc as long as he lr 



IK. Thus have we finifhed our 1 phinj 



have completed our (ketch of Univ; rftl Krudi- 

 tion, that is, of all the knowledge the human 

 mind has been hitherto capable of acquiring. 

 \Vhcn we confidcr the multiplicity and intricacy 



