ae 
in company with a dozen peers? 
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and immerge my matter and fpirit to fpe- 
culate on thefe fublime fubjects in a folita- 
ry celJ.. We will fay nothing then of na- 
tions, bit take a finaller range. 
Was you never in company with a do- 
zen authors? what a noife! what a 
‘riot! what difputing! Was you ever 
What 
filence! what good breeding! what fine 
vacuities of ideas and fenfations! Could 
you but mix the company together, join to 
them a few merchants, to keep the ba- 
lance between the wits and t#: peers, and 
your afternoon would be complete.. It is 
from want of knowledge of this great fe- 
cret of matter and mind, that fo many par- 
ties are entirciy {poiled. You cannot dine 
with Graciofo, without a half dozen 
lawyers in your party. Thefe geniry, 
having a jargon of their own, and having 
fome claims to notice in the fpiritual 
world, ave more intolerable to a man of 
enlarged mind, than a fet of women who 
can talk only of their mantua or wig- 
makers. With Hipponomus, the majo- 
rity comes from Newmarket, and their 
fouls are in the flables: Mercater’s table 
Fepeats the wit of the ftock-exchange ; and 
with Galenophilus, you muft laneh ata 
jet ona clyfer-or an emetick. Now all 
thefe miftakes arife from an ignorance 
of the two worlds—the material and-the 
{piritual.- If you with to have in your 
party one capable of faying things worthy 
of notice, take care to balance’ him by a 
fufficient quantity of hearers: do you wifh- 
to make your paity as ftupid as poiitbie, 
let there be one man of talents, and the 
yeft incapable of enjoying a {prightly faily, 
or underfianding the beft-curned compli- 
ment. 
The neceflity of attending to my dac- 
trine in common life, muft be evident to 
€very one ; but itis not confined to the 
mere convenience of domeftic circless |» Avs 
thermometers may be made for priyate 
life, they may be enlarged alfo for the be- 
nefit of a kingdem. It would not be cit- 
ficult to point out the materials on which 
it ig formed; nay, as all inventors are 
wery fanguine, I do not fcruple to fay, 
that dog we s%, and I will turn a nation 
from a neble, generous, free-hearted, foi- 
rited people, intoa fet of ikupid, fcif-inte- 
refted, bafe, avaricious, unfeeling brutes, 
and wite verja. The experiments have 
not been expreffiy tried on a large fale 
but, if eny one is of 2 curious, inguiltive 
ifpefition, he might find it- indulged by a 
few very eafy trials. | : 
Take then ayoung gentlemah juft en- 
tering, as they fay; into life, whe has had 
i 
The Conteft between Matter and Mind. 
jure I, 
-the ufual education, and acquired the com- 
mon ideas that that education is capable 
of beftowing. He knows that the earth 
is divided into its four quarters, and has 
a tolerable idea that the Eaft and Weft In- 
dies do not join each other. He knows 
that people fhould go to church, and that 
parfons are made to preach in them; con- 
fequently there is no need of any body to 
preach in any other place. He knows that 
cur conftitution is the beft in the world, 
and that the trunk of a good tree is better 
than its branches ; but, whether it came: 
into this. country with Julius Czfar, or 
two-thoufand years before the flood, or. 
how it came at all amongf us, are things 
of no concern to him: he has found it 
here, and every-body fays, and furely eve- 
ry-body ought te know, that it is the beft 
in the world. Now, what would you make 
of fuch a fubjeét ?—Ad biviam literam y 
pervenimus—as fays Pythagoras—we are 
come to the crofs-roads, which fhall he 
take? es 
T advife then firft, that you take him to 
a good dinner—the Morning Poft will give 
you your own choice: but, fer my own 
part, I fhould prefer for the experiment 
Mr. Th . When he has admired 
fuficiently the fplendour: of the citizen, 
and the low-tened converfation of his 
titled companions, let him go to Mrs. 
M—’s rout; but be not fatished with one 
rout, fqueeze him through the whole lift 
of the Morning Poft, if you poffibly can, 
before morning. On Thurfday evenings, 
let him not.by any means mifs the meet- 
ings of the Royal and Antiquarian Socie- 
ties ; and, if it is Lent, and you ean get 
him up time enough, fecure hima place at 
St. James’s Church for the» next day. 
Kenfington Gardens come as things of 
courfe, and the Opera-houfe is a place too 
well qualified for his education to be ever 
neglected on a Saturday-night. Purfue 
this courfe for three months, and I will 
warrant you, that he wiil never diffent 
from a foul in company, will be’a mof 
delightful companion for the Stein at 
Brighton, the Pier at Ramfgate, the reoms 
at Bath. Noebje&, in either {piritual or 
material world, fhall ever: difturb him, - 
the cry of diftrefs will never, pierce his 
ears; the tears of fenfibility thall never 
move his foul); amidit the crafh of worlds, 
nay, though tea-tables, card-tables, piers 
glafies, fhould mix in ene.confufion, inthe 
‘general crafh, healone will ftand unmoved 
~— he alone is the true philofopher. 
From this fuccefsful experiment, turn” 
your attention to another, which will do 
equal credit to your_abilitics. Take a 
> young 
