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touched him nearly, he acled fteadily upon 

 his own principles. 



And there were fubjects out of himfelf 

 on which he was always ferioufly and 

 earneftly ingenuous. Politics was one. He 

 hated war, and thought the motives few 

 indeed, which could vindicate it's homicide, 

 efpecially in this commercial and fea-de- 

 fended country. That of forcing America 

 into internal, unreprefented taxation, and of 

 interfering, through jealoufy of her prin- 

 ciples, with the internal government of 

 France, he utterly difapproved. The event 

 of both thofe contefts accomplifhed his 

 prophecies, and juftified his diiapprobation. 



Early in the year, 1800, Dr. Darwin 

 publifhed another large quarto volume, 

 intitled, Phytologia, or the Philofophy of 

 Agriculture and Gardening. The writer 

 of thefe -pages does not prefume to fpeak 

 her opinion of this production as a.n whole ; 



the 



