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know more than the wifefl man of the moft polifhed nation » This preser 

 knowledge may be eafily obtained from them by friendlinefs, 

 kindnefs, and gentlenefs; and if fo bought it is cheaply obtained. 

 The fecond obfcrvation points out the neceffity of fending out 



VATION 

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verfed in fcience, and the knowledge of 



all occa 



fions to remote parts of the world, in order to investigate thepow 



and qual 



of natural objc<fls ; and 



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them out, but they ought likewife to be encouraged in their labo- 

 rious tafk, liberally fupported and generoully enabled to make fuch 

 enquiries as may prevent their fellow creatures in future times 

 from becoming facrifices to their own ignorance. 



^ m gmdem non admodum indoBis^ totum hoc dif- 

 f licet, philofophari. ^idam autem < id nan tam reprehendunt^ 

 fi remijjius agatur : fed tantum Jiudium,, tamque mult am ope^ 



ram^onendam in eo non arbttrantur. 



M. TuLLius Cicero. ■ 



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