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and only a few confiderations fhall be offered in the order that 
they arife. 
Animo fatis haec veftigia parva fagaci 
Sunt, per quse poffis cognofcere csetera tute. 
Lucretius. 
Impatience, adllvity, and fanguine hope, are habits of 
an European. By education his imagination is exalted 
and his ideas are multiplied. By reading, and frequent 
intercourfe with foreigners, he is enabled to prefent to 
himfelf the ftate of diftant times and remote nations. 
Their knowlege, their arts, their pleafures become familiar to 
him J and, from a fixed principle of the human mind, the 
lively idea of all thefe advantages generates the hope of appro- 
priating them. His firft attempt is haply crowned with fuccefs, 
and he is thus ftimulated to farther effort : but as the bounds 
fixed to his attainments are removed the farther he advances, 
and improvement is infinite, his ultimate difappointment is 
inevitable, and it is felt with a poignancy proportioned to the 
confidence of his firfl; hopes. 
The habits of the Oriental, on the contrary, are indolence, 
gravity, patience. His ideas are few in number; and his 
fentiments in courfe equally rare. They are, however, gene- 
rally corred, fpringing from the objects around him, and for 
the moil part limited to thofe objeds. 
A chief caufe of this contraft, muft be the mode of education 
in each community. Education fhould be the art of forming 
man 
