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of thefe objects, and when we reflect on the 

 weak net of our own talents, we are flill inclined 

 to afk ourfelves, if we are really arrived at the 

 end of our labour ? There may be ftill fome 

 fciences which we have not mentioned, or at 

 lead fome nominal fcience, though it may be al- 

 ready comprifed in fome other part of Erudition: 

 but we are attached to things and not to deno- 

 minations, to real objects and not to frivolous 

 diftinctions. 



X. Teftudious Tenth, it is to you we confecrate 

 our labours : fometimes perufe this abridgment. 

 You will read a romance, ancient or modern, of 

 a dozen volumes, and many frivolous and volu- 

 minous works. Why therefore can you not 

 read three volumes ? But if you would attempt 

 thoroughly to underftand all the arts and fciences 

 we have here indicated, know, that neither the 

 life of man, nor the limits of the human under- 

 flanding, are fufficient for fuch a project. If you 

 read this work, however, as you read a romance, 

 you will receive but little advantage : but if you 

 mall ferioufly ftudy it -, if by means of it you ac- 

 quire a juil idea of Univerfal Erudition, and if 

 from amidft this mafs of fciences you mall make 

 a judicious choice of thofe to which you will 

 particularly apply yourfelves, you may become 

 truly learned ; and perhaps you will owe us fome 

 obligation to your lateft hour. 



FINIS. 



