as to meet danger face to face and take it by the beard determined therefore to put an end to all these petty on the borders he wrote two or three letters to the grand council which though neither ia bad latin nor yet by about wolves and and op yet had more effect than all the elaborate and of his learned put together in consequence of his the great of the east agreed to enter into a final of and settlement of boundaries to the end that a perpetual and happy peace might take place between the two powers for this purpose governor two to with from the grand council of the league and a treaty was solemnly concluded at on receiving intelligence of this event the whole community was in an uproar of exultation the trumpet of the sturdy van sounded all day with joyful from the of fort and at night the city was illuminated with two hundred and fifty candles besides a barrel of tar which was burnt before the governor s house on the cheering aspect of public affairs and now my worthy reader is doubtless like the great and good peter himself with the that his feelings will no longer be by details of stolen horses broken and all the other catalogue of heart that disgraced these border wars but if he should indulge in such ous it is a proof k s s that he is but little in the ways of to convince him of which i his serious attention to my next chapter wherein i will show that peter has already committed a great error in politics and by a peace has materially the tranquillity of the province i speculations on chapter iii divers speculations on war and � showing that a treaty of peace is a great national evil it was the opinion of that poetical her that war was the original state f man whom he described as being a savage beast of prey engaged in a constant of hostility with his own species and that his ferocious spirit was tamed and y society the same opinion been by nor have there been wanting other philosophers to admit and defend it for my part though fond of these valuable speculations so complimentary to nature yet in this instance i am inclined o take the proposition by believing ith that though war may have been the favourite amusement and industrious employment of our yet like part i chap f ac et t post hot sat l i s sl man s many other excellent habits so far from being it has been cultivated and confirmed by refinement and civilization and in exact proportion as we approach towards that state of perfection which is the ne of modem philosophy the first conflict between man and man was the mere exertion of physical force by weapons � his arm was his his fist was his and a broken head the catastrophe of his the battle of strength was succeeded by the more rugged one of stones and clubs and war assumed a aspect as man advanced in refinement as his faculties expanded and became more exquisite he grew rapidly more ingenious and experienced in the art of his fellow beings he invented a thousand devices to defend and to assault � the and the the sword the dart and the prepared him to the wound as well as to the blow still urging on in the brilliant and career of invention he and powers of defence and injury � the the the and the give a horror and to war and its glory by increasing its desolation still though armed with machinery that seemed s fighting by to reach the of destructive invention and to yield a power of injury even with the desires of revenge � still deeper must be made in the area na with furious zeal he into the of the earth he toils midst poisonous and deadly � the discovery of upon the world � and finally the dreadful art of fighting by seems to the demon of war with and this indeed is grand � this indeed marks the powers of mind nd that divine of reason which us from the animals our the brutes content themselves with the native force which providence has assigned them � the angry bull with his horns as did his before him � the hon the and the seek only with their and their to gratify their fury and even the subtle serpent the same and uses tlie same as did his before the flood man alone blessed with the mind goes on from discovery to discovery � his powers of destruction the tremendous weapons of deity itself and tasks creation to assist him in his brother worm improvements in war and peace in proportion as the art of war has increased in improvement has the art of preserving peace advanced in equal and as we have discovered in tliis age of wonders and inventions that is the most in war so have we discovered the no less ingenious mode of maintaining peace by perpetual a treaty or to speak more correctly a therefore according to the of experienced learned in these matters is no longer an attempt to accommodate to ascertain rights and to establish an exchange of kind offices test of skill between two powers which shall over reach and take in the other it is a cunning endeavour to obtain by peaceful and the of those advantages which a nation would otherwise have by force of arms in the same manner that a conscientious hi and becomes an excellent and praise worthy citizen himself with his neighbour out of that property he would formerly have seized open violence in fact the only time when two nations can be said to be in a state of perfect is when a is open and a treaty then as there are 