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In this arrangement the fame obje&s are prefented under different 
names, while other departments of fcience are wholly omitted. 
What is the diftindtion between natural hiftory and exterior phy- 
fics ? and between interior phyfics and experimental philofophy ? 
Why is commerce detached from general oeconomy ? and why is 
there no mention whatever made of moral philofophy ? General 
ceconomy itlelf, in a comprehendve view of things, falls under the 
head of moral philofophy. In this part of the plan there is fome- 
thing extremely unphilofophical and abfurd. I do not recolledl 
an inftance of fuch glaring negledl of the molt important branch 
of philofophy, except one, namely, that in a famous univerfity of 
England the fcholaphilofoph'uz moraJis is appropriated to the foie 
purpofe of lodging the Arundelian marbles, and other fculptures 
and ftatues. Finally, why fet apart one clafs of the academicians 
for the improvement of hiftory and the belles-lettres, when there 
was already an academy devoted to thole particular purpofes; 
and when the obje<ft implied in the title of the academy is not li¬ 
terature but fcience } It has been remarked that the grandeft 
ftrokes of policy have been ftruck, and the moft beneficial im¬ 
provements in political affairs effected by the counfels and ma¬ 
nagement not of diplomatifts and lawyers, or profelfional men of 
any kind., but by men of the world, general fcholars, and what are 
commonly called liberally educated gentlemen. In the fame way 
men of liberal and unbiafled minds might afford better advice for 
regulating learned focieties, fchools, and univerfities, than pro¬ 
found fcholars, wdiofe views are narrowed by the influence of pe¬ 
dantry. 
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