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jealous miftrefs. who will not be f{atished 
with any partial and divided honors: 
to woo her with fuccefs, fhe muft be our 
ouly.goddefs: we muft retire with her 
into the fhade of folitude, and all ovr 
morning and our evening hours be dedi- 
ezted to her fervice. It is weil known, 
thar on this account, Science never fiou- 
rifhes im any foctety till it has reached a 
fort of maturity; that 1s to fay, till the 
divifion of its labor and the abundance of 
its produce have exonerated a large por- 
ion o¢ its members from the necefiiry of 
manual employment, and left them lei- 
fure for contemplation and ftudy. 
America, as an eftablifhed snd ‘inde- 
pendent fociety, is yet young; and if we 
confider the various and important objects 
which, fince the union of the States, have 
demanded the vigilance and attention of 
the Government, and. taxed the uwun- 
wearted activity of the peuple, we fhall 
not be furprifed that authors there are 
few, and original publications not gene- 
rally of very high excellence and efti- 
mation. During the laft few years of 
General Wafhington’s Prefidency, that 
great man turned his thoughts towards 
the improvement of his countrymen in 
arts and fcience; we remember to have 
read an Addrefs delivered by him at 
Philadelphia fo long ago as in the year 
1794, wherein, after ftating to the Senate 
the fiourifhing ftate of the finances, he 
recommends a part of the unappropriated 
furplus of the public revenue to be em- 
ployed in the eftablifhment of fchools and 
colleges*. Many fchools and colleges 
are erected, but of fome it is faid that 
they are very infufficiently endowed, and 
ef others, that the teachers are incompe- 
tent to the tafk of tuition ; ftill, however, 

* The Congratulatory Addrefs above al- 
luded to, was delivered to the Senate and 
Houfe of Reprefentatives, December 6, 1794; 
on the fuppreffion of a ferijous fedition, and we 
well remember a humane and exculpatory re- 
mark which was made on the occafion: the 
Prefident attributed the rebellion not fo much 
to difaffeGiion on the part of the infergents 
agrainft the Conftitution,,but to their ignorance 
et its principles, he therefore recommends, 
in order to prevent the recurrence of infurrec- 
tion, that the Senate fhould #* provide by Law, 
as foon as conveniently may be, for the eita- 
blifhment of fchools throughout the State, in 
fuch a manner that the pace may be taught 
gratis.”? The Prefident of America had na 
reafon to dread the diffufion of. knowledge 
among the lower claffes of fociety : the mea-~ 
fures of his adminiftration would ftand the 
fevereft fcrutiny, and he rather courted than 
forunk trom: the honorable ordeal.” 
; 
Retrofpec? of Americar Literature—Fiflors. 
thefe fchools and colleges have had their 
effet: and there can be no doubt, but 
that, nowever defeétive-in many particu- 
lars, they are daily contributing te diffufe 
a fpirit of iterary and fcientific purfvir. 
We have hitherto devoted the pages of 
our Appendix to a Retrefpeét of Eure- 
pean Literature, but it will not be unac- 
ceptable, we prefume, if we communicate 
to our readers whatever information we 
Tay from half-year to half-year be 
enabled to colleét relative to the pregrefs 
of Letters in America. ~ 
Bistory. ' : 
A work, which on the fcore of mach 
exccllence has a claim to notice, is “ A 
Complete Hiftory of Conncéticut, Civil 
and tcelefiaftical, from the Emigration of 
its firft Planters from England, in 1630, 
to 1713, by BenjamMiv TRUMBULL, 
D. D.” Asa complete hiftory of Ame- 
rica is only to be cdlleéted from the local 
hiftory of its feveral States, contributions 
Hike the prefent towards fuch a general 
hiftory are particularly valuable. The 
author has divided his work into chap- 
ters, the two firft of which contain de- 
tails of the difcoveries, fettlements, fitua- 
tion, &c. of Conneéticut. He then gives 
a curfory but interefting account of the 
Aborigines of the country, together with 
its animal and vegetable produétions: 
Many fubfequent chapters are employed 
in enumerating the purcliafes of the firft 
fettlers, their feveral wars with the In- 
dians, their progrefs in the organization 
of a regular government, and their various 
improvements from 163¢ to 166s, the 
period of union between Conneéticut and 
New Haven. From this time is given 
the civil and political hiftory of the State 
to the year 1713, with which the volume 
clofes; the ecclefiaftical hiftory of Con- 
neéticut and New Haven, both antecedent 
and fubfequent to the union, very pro- 
perly occupying: diftinét chapters of the 
work. Dr. Trumbull in the preface to 
the publication informs his countrymen 
that he ts now engaged in compiling a ° 
‘* Hiltory of the United States” on a very 
extenfive plan, and we may allow them 
to anticipate from the prefent fpecimen, 
much impartiality, much minutenelS of. 
inveftigation, and much fidelity in the 
exhibition of faéts. afte 
Mifs Hannan Apams has publithed 
«A Summary Hiftory of New England, 
from the Firft Settlement at Plymouth, to 
the Acceptance of the Federai Conftitu- 
tion’ This work is profeffedly a mere 
fummary, a compilation from other av= 
thors and from fugitive political publicas 
tans, 
