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!. (5Al ~ Is ut this is not al. ISsides cEoos-
ing those who command, or advise, or
;neige. 6 e IS consoaant TO tlls nature Of a
democracy Gas il has been obssrsed), that
ali matters of dclibefation or Legislation,
should be decided By all the pfoble, either
collectively or successfully" (55)
SANKEY'S abridgement is TO The same ct.
feet. If the whole be considered, instead OF
part. "a city, he says, is governed eli
Their by one man, or some fssO, or al, aud
each OF these either rightly or pnjnsttY,----
Rightly when the princes respeat the com
mon good; unjustly when the consider
their own private interest. ne rtghs
are Monarchy, Arisfocracy, Democracy;
the unjust, Iurannu, OAgarchy, ochIocfa-
GU. There is also a miHedg7vernmsnt, can
sistiag Of The good kinds. And whereas
commonwealth is often changed into better
or worse; that is best which is guided ac-
cording to 0irtue, that worse which is ac-
cordlng to Uice.
!" They who command or advise or
Judge, in dem0c, acy, are taken out OF
al, either by suffrage or LOT, in an ohgarchy
out eff the richer in an ariStocracJ on. OF
the best"
Secondly. We have read with attention,
the eight books of Aristotle's PolIticks,
and compared the quotations, used by the
Able Barshelemy, and quoted from thence,
by the Mirror, and fad the sense OF Arts
totle in no instance peygerted or mlsrepre-
sented.
Thardly. "The Editor" mentions his
having seen in the Philadelphia Library,
French.edition of Aris,ote's Politics. II
he will take the trouble to look again into
the library, he will find in it, " Aritotehs
Obera, Greece ct LATIN. Percelying that
he understands Greek and Latin, we would
recommend it to him FIR view Of Aristo.
ties Politics, instead of SANKEY'S; which,
as before observed, is comprised in less
than quarto page.
He VIII also find in that library, atreat-
lse, entitled "Arist0teAs de Opium Statu
Reibu5Eca,o which, he may, perhaps, recon.
Gle him to the title used by the author Of
Anacharsis, or his translator, I" Arist0tehs
de ReibubHce.'
II is in this manner Mr.. Duane contutes
book Gas Collin says of his aatagoni&ts) at
the rate that mice do, by nibb!ing llStie at
few of the leaves.
But the author of the Travels of Ana.
charsis, the younger, in Greece, Is not per-
mnted to escape with this detection. Be-
sides not knowing how to translate 1he tide
of Aristotle's Politics into Latin, be was
(saying your presence) a priest, and the
='s tutor and the defender OF the worst pub.
lie statement which Europe has known in
the last eventtul century," (56) and, as if
this had not been sufficient to have deprlv-
ed him ofpublic confidence, he adds, that
his most celebrated work, the Travels OF
Anacharsis, the yoaRger, IS only Ro-
mr. &c. All! from what remorse might not
this writer save himself, did bat the ronlaE-
ces he publiAhes, almost daily, in the Au-
rora, rest upon an equally solid FONDA
ton!
The Able was about thirty years en-
ploveG on this romance, in the whole Of
which, there is not single fact, sentence,
or circumstance, relative to the Greek III.
situations and governments, lhat IS not sup
ported by the weight aad auhoriiy # some
ancient writer. And let ne aid, the fd4.
lity of the able, relative to these authori.
ties, has never been called in question, be.
fore this attack by the esudite vindcator
of the democratic constitutions Of Amc.
rica'
But The able does not stand solitary
instance of The critical acumea Of Mr.. Do
ane. Humc's word Is nor to 10 be taken
for amere historical feet, relative TO the
Roman commonwealth Why ?----he was
the apologist Of the house Of Stuart. (57)
Aristotle, too, is unworthy Of all belief;
Why? he was the preceptor Of Alexander
the Great. (5S) Xenophon and Thucidides
are as little worthy of credit as either:
Why? because they were ban,silcd from