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(this being their firft view of the inhabitants 
of this planet,) and that they were afked, 
whether, if they were obliged to fojourn a 
while upon Earth, they would be men or 
horfes? is there a Spirit among them who 
would not prefer the latter mode of exift- 
ence? 
It has been frequently obferved, and I 
think juftly, that individuals generally act: 
more rationally than aggregate bodies of 
men : how (hall we otherwife account for 
that legiflatorial fupinenefs which continues 
to poftpone the total fuppreflion of thefe 
licenfed feminaries of vice 5 when there is 
hardly an individual in the kingdom who 
is not perfectly convinced, that all race- 
grounds, and particulaly Newmarket, are 
the nurferies of (harpers, the fchools of 
highwaymen, and the graves of morality? 
Human understanding is a plant, which, 
individually, advances very flowly to matu- 
rity i but its progrefs in fociety is yet much 
lefs rapid. Many of the philofophers of an- 
cient times faw, and defpifed, the abfurdi- 
ties of the heathen fyftem of religion, whilft 
their refpeclive nations continued their ado- 
ration of fictitious, immoral, profligate dei- 
ties. Probably the period is not very far 
remote. 
