
_ 1796ue 
To ihe Editor of ibe Monthly Magazine: 
SIR, ‘ee ad 
ne 
VouRi ingenious correfpo dent Hera. 
clito-Democriteus has a eda very 
appofite fignature. He reminds me o 
a perfon 1 have fomewhere heard or 
read of, who had fuch a command of 
, as to laugh on one fide of his 
thile he wept on,the gother. I 
have indulged a hearty. laugh at 
the wit and humour with which his let- 
ter abounds, | checked by 
the thoug 2 nuge in ve ta ducunt. 
Swift's 3 lo, though there a many 
ftrokes of 1 and (ative in it 
but confider as a piece of i 
againft human nature, and,fre 
i bhor the fentiment he uti 






Mtas for that thing called k 
mt deteft it.’’ 
‘Tt has been faid, and J be 
that the fcorn and contempt 
the unhappy Jews pa ee for ages 

> invariably treated by t How 
Chritt » has been one a that 
bafe dnd abject {pirit w fo gene- 
rally attached to their ‘Nae and [ 
sate ee eae that if, 3 
cating that truly, noble maxim ¢ 
a philo Koophers, he Pe ol 
are prefented Vv 
ot human natt 
drawn, and hig 
a fimiler effect. 
Your correfpon 
hiftory, and the 
paft ages, to prove, th 
for the purpofe of p 








os ig 
inet sige of 
Were’ ma 
ng, enflaying, 





mand of tyrants and lcaders 
* but this. is furely a very part. 
complete view of the { 
about to draw the gener 
ter of the inhabitants o 
 .Weftminfter, would it be 
“amy eftim te from the annals 
6 alley, or from t 
AY 
Was af 
emis: : 
} and one 
ie 



Tiftory ore, confi- 
. { 
al point of view, than the 
he nite, of the canaille of mankind, and 
by no means proves that there is more 
moral eyil, than moral goodin the world. 
How, indeed, {hall we we ke the com- 
- putation? Bor after heaping les, 
the many inftances of a n, violence 
impofturc, cruelty, revenge, i ineratituc 
want of natural fection rac {enfu- 
Montury Mac, No. VIII. 





; Anfwer to Heraclito- Democritenus, 








* and murdering each oie at the coms». 
679 
ality, éc. which hiftory a experience 
abundantly furnifs, who will fam up 
for us the contrary inftances of tove to 
fetes: friends, neighbours, ftrangers, 
d chal ruce creation ? who 
up the innumerable inftances 





of privaté™wartues in the middle clafles 
of life, which are me, veg Pearded, vas 
within the prevince of we junftances 
of temperance and chattialg \ ack 
gratitude, and compailion, cou » hue 
mility, patience, refignati “spat &e. 
and ftrike a fair balance ? hefeWatter, 



like cheering funs, tilizing fhowers, 
healthful and “fruitgal ons, the common 
phenomena of nature, oceur oftenyumix 
themfelves “with our mof common 
chts, words, and actions, and pats 
noticed ; while the former, efpe- 
wally if jomed with pow x, as they ufu- 
ally are, like ftorms and” tempefts 
Gr phsues, and carthquakes, make 
ronger™and more lafting impreffions, . 
and occur to the memory and imagin 
tion, more edi ily in all enquiries of this 
nabane: 
Let us fee, then, Mr. Editor, ie 
We cannot, as Her’Dem. defires, from a 
fair drawing after nature, give! a 
and more favourable portrait OF 
mane man, than his Sin 
bits, or, at leaft, men 
‘OMO® Animal alia 
ligne inteélligens; boni im 
yer eae pe c 
Are] od uorun 
titi 
coelum ingle: 








fae 
anima. 
} Salita. 
1, Capax 5 
um tendens. 
vefRigator ; 
afortio gande) 
1 domitor ; 


mble fervant, 
: Oa ig Homo. 
Hackneys Sept. 8; 1796. “By 
ne - 
Ta BE N or RER.ONo. VIE, 
woe Wherein do the prefent Modes 
Popular Infiruction admit’ ea ‘ie ‘ 
ah 



Without thee, what were unenlighten’d man ? 
Afavage, roarming through the Wvoones and wilds 
In. aa of prey. Tuoms one 
shitherto been too “ue the 
of the higher orders of fo clety 
to tr -cat the lower ike with contempt. 
The phi fopher has {poker of the vuls 
gar asa favage herd, whofe thovchts 
are all vanity, whole words are all falfe- 
a Kk : hood 


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