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Nothing can conduce more to pre- 

 ferve the Learning which this latter 

 Age abounds with, than having Re- 

 pofitories in every Nation to contain 

 its Antiquities, fuch as is the Mufeum 

 of Britain : But, in order more ef- 

 fecflually to prevent our falling back 

 again into a State of Ignorance and 

 Barbarifm, it were to be wifhed that 

 the Plan of it were enlarged, that the 

 Buildings were more extenfive, and 

 that a Fund were eflabliflaed, fufficient 

 to anfwer the Purpofe of encouraging 

 ingenious Men in every ufeful Art, in 

 every Science ; and I know of nothing 

 that can be done that will tend more 

 to the Honour of our Country, when 

 it fhall pleafe God to give us the 

 Bleffing of Peace, than to have fuch 

 a large Fund appropriated for the En- 

 couragement of Ingenuity and Learn- 

 ing. 



