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TRAVELS 
Manichaians and Gnofiics, as well as thofe of Plato, entered early 
into the creeds of Chriftians. AriRotle, and other philofophers, 
diredlcd the fchoolmen; the fchoolmen the church, and the 
church for fifteen hundred years the Rate, and in repeated in- 
Rances the motions of armies. Mighty monarchs maffacred or 
exterminated NeRorians, Arians, Albigenfes, Waldenfes, Jews, 
Moors, Hugonots, and Prefbyterians. The proteRant and the 
catholic faith divided Europe ; and difputes about liberty and ne- 
ceffity among the ProteRants themfelves were tinged with blood. 
In the times of Rofcelinus and Abelard, kings interfered in the dis¬ 
pute between the NominaliRs and the RealiRs; an argument not 
vet terminated. The medical world at one period was divided 
between the difciples of Galen and thofe of Paracelfus. Thofe of 
the two former, from the pride-of poffeffion, claimed Rill an ex¬ 
clusive right to the public ear, and obtained from the court of 
Paris an inhibition againR thofe of the latter; though this, like 
other decrees, gave way in time to the progrefs of opinion. It 
appears at firR fight Rra-nge, but neverthelefs nothing is more cer¬ 
tain, than that the affairs of nations may be influenced, as we 
have juR feen in the cafe of France, by inRitutions for the Rudy 
of mathematics and belles-lettres. 
Whoever reflects on the ufual effeff of literature and fcience to 
awaken the genius of liberty, by exciting a fpirit of free difcuf- 
Ron on all fubjedts, by preferving the memory of the ancient re¬ 
publics, by quickening the perception of right and wrong, and 
vindicating the dignity of human nature, will be apt to confider 
the 
