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REMARKS 



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THE 



ARTS fockties and their various progrefs, their laws of government,^ 



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:ient to enable us to form, a competent idea of the 



AND 



SCIENCES 



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would be fufficient 

 real ftate of humanity in thefe countries^ It remains only to 

 complete the whole, by fuggefling thofe arts, thofe ideas and 

 principles,, which thefe nations think moft worthy of perpetuating 



progeny, and vv^hich therefore become the objedls 



among their 



both of common and more exalted education. 



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Our trades and. mechanical arts, as well as our fciences and hifto- 



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rical knowledge, are the refults of the inventions and obfervations 

 of many thoufands, who have lived at many different periods of 

 time, and in countries very remote from ane another. They may 

 be juftly cdnfidered as the jolnt-ftock of knowledge of all man- 

 kind, and a treafure, to which, all inquiiitive individuals, and 

 the more polilhed nations of Europe have free accefs. This im- 



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menfe ftore of knowledge can at prefent no longer be viewed and 

 examined, by one perfon :. it is too vafl to be comprehended by one 

 individual, be he ever fo great a genius. It -is enough in the 

 prefent condition of highly civilized European focieties,. to perpe- 



bulk, by dividing 



branches, open for the 



cxercife and invefligation of a multitude, and their various cir-- 

 Gumftances and choice. Thus we have contrived not only tO' 

 preferve each fmall branch in that perfed:ion in which it Is found;,., 



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but likewlfe to make new improvements,, and to add to it new 



difcoverles.- 



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