P R E ¥ A C E. 
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The fine arts are, perhaps, more highly 
cultivated, and the liberal sciences more 
generally diffused through all classes of the 
community in the present day, than they 
ever yet have been, since the enlightened 
8eras to \vhich Greece and Rome owe their 
matchless fame. 
Most of the various branches of Natural 
History, that primeval science in which all 
human beings are more or less concerned, 
have been rendered familiar, and accessible 
to every capacity and age. 
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