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are found to be of abundant Ufe to 

 Science. It is on this Account the 

 World cannot boaft of fo many Antiqui- 

 ties it could otherwife have done ; for 

 though Time is a great Deftroyer of hu- 

 man Produdlions, the Iron Hand of Ig- 

 norance and Superftition has often done 

 Learning more real Injury in one Year» 

 than Time in many Centuries. What 

 Lengths will not Ignorance run, when 

 animated by a falfe Zeal ? 



The Colle6tion in this Room does not 

 entirely confift of Pieces of Antiquity ; 

 we find many modern Articles brought 

 from diftant Nations, particularly from 

 the feveral Parts of the new World of 

 America^ which ferve to difcover the In- 

 <iuftry. Genius, and Manners of the In- 

 habitants. Happy for them were they 

 now content with the little that once fatis- 

 fied them ; but the polite Europeans^ fince 

 the Difcovery of thofe Parts, have, by 

 encreafing their Wants, deprived them of 

 ^ their 



