Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-09-11

t0Gf bordss Of modern p0t,iots. In the &c
ence OF Medicine we need only to mcntio
the animal magnetym t4 MeGmer, and II
metallic trat7o,s Of CIR Perkins, befo,
| which fly in diimay all diEcrders, ails AN
inhrmities, like goblin's before the ma
cans wand. In the Ec;ence Of tbeoloy
and religion, happily nothing more wa
necehary, than TO U0reyeal and undiicover
what for ages had been revealed and o,f
covered. In this pious work of uuasfue
the eighteenth century boats a fwarm q
worthless, from Voltaife and his royu
| frtena, down to Tom Paine and his Wv,
trims Correspondent. I he exertions o
thete great philosophers and citizens of The
world, to anaibilafe the fcience of reIioi.
on, which is likew;ie the fcience of lcc;.
al Happiness, appear doubly rneritorious,
when we recolleet that Roheau, a r,oii
marvellous fage, has proved, beyond .
doubt, thar all the licences are bur 70 ma
ny CURES TO mankind, and thar civiIiza-
ton has barbarized the world Compar-
ed with thefe Rlamsnated lages, how con-
temptible do Newton, Locke, Boyle.
Hale, Hcoke, and the like dark minded
old falhioned fellows, appear, who in their
lite time, were often found eravely EN-.
ployed about religion, ieriouly> advocar-
ing the exiitence of a God and of future
itate, and were rot ATTAINED openly to a.
vow their belief even in the Chriifian
iyitem! But could they now be permitted
tor, moment to look down upon the phi
loiophic triumphs of this age of reafon.
how would they blufh FOL their fnperaiti-
on! Poor Newton would be doubly NOR
titled. Having waited 70 much time a.
bout his principles of gravitation, and ran
lacked fun and moon in hunting up the
caaie of tides, without once dreaming of
the amazing Jumps of ice at the poles
ihouid he chance to behold the ipcoupara-
BILE St. Pierre, how intolerably ctlaerined
mutt he be for his grofs ignorance of nasu.
raj philofephy!
But enough has been aid to thew how
infinitely fuperior to their ancefors the
enlightened of the prefent day are in their
opinions and principles. Now fuch is the
connection between theory and practice.
principles and conduct, that it is Highly
abfurd for us, with our hyperion light, to
pretend to act on the plans adopted by our
fathers. They knew no better than fe.
riouly to fuppole, nor only that their off
ipring of either fex had /ouis, but that
thofe fouls were worth faying, and that
the mind is the nobler part of man. Very
confidently therefore with tiieie principles.
they might make it the chief objett Of
education to ifrengthen the mind and i'm
prove the heart, TO inculcate moral and
religious icntiments, and to enforce habits
ofattive virtue and goodnefs. But ought
not we, their fashionable defendants, to
maintain like confifency, and, there
fore, in the education of our daughters TO
conhne cur attention to adjoining the bo-
dy, and furnifhing thofe perfonal ac-
compliments, which may be difeerned by
the fenies, without the aid of underGand-
ing :
This will appear the more proper and
neceAary, when it is conGdered, thar the
main defgn of female education at the
prefent day Il mean among the mott ia
ihicnable, whom alone attempt to vim
dicate) is to make fhow, and attract adj.
miration. Now, fnce all have eyeJ'and
ears, whether they have understanding
or not, 1t is very evident that among peo-
pie of fafhion young lady, who has not
fPent more than 6 or 7 years in learning
nuiic, nddancing, and drawing, and en-.
htoldery, and Especially painting in all its
varieties, may make difinguifhed f.
CURE: whereas had fhe fpent twice the
time 10 fudying to improve her mind and
her hart, fhe would NOT, perhaps, be no.
ticcd, nor her improvements even per-
| cciVed. But The very nature &c well &c