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Mediterranean openly sanctioned national
piracy. NerKes invaded Greece with no
preiext bat conquest, plunder, and eH-
tended rule. While many a modern war
has been waged upon a aimsy Preiext.
yet there is a marked Improvement and
the present age IS memorable for the hiih-
erio unknown phase in diplomacy in which
pow eriul nation has acknowledged her
wrong IN a solemn treaty, and has nromis-
ed a repatriation. Verify war is becoming
in realiiy as gell as in name. "the last
argument to which kings resort" 4th.
The cause Of religious liberty has been
advanced. The cross, the stake, the tor
ture Of the InquisitiOn, have ceased to be
the resorts ofbiggotry to support its views
9th, The doctrine Of a common brother
hood Of mankind is being acknowledged as
true. The most remote hamlet on the
frontier sends its offering half around the
world to aid in the support of missionary
labors in the building up Of Christ's king
dom. Famished Persia receives free
bread from the New World, and arisio-
cratic Europe sends voluntary contribu-
tons TO stricken Chicago. In the latter
case there is something more than a mere
exhibition Of personal sympathy, for a
nation, with whom, friendly relations have
frequently been suspended, in its corpor.
ate capacity, voluntarily tenders the free
use of tents and blankets. How different
this from the public sentiment Of autiqui.
ty that approved the doctrine that the
weak and unfortunate we're the lawful
prey of the strong. We make no clAiaas
to have reached the millennium Of univer.
sal justice, or to have approached very
near TO 1t but it is our conviction that
We suffer nothing by comparison with the
If crime and corruption are
common in our day it is gratifying to know
hat they have been more so in the past. |
From the whole of this view therefore
t will appear that the moderns, though
Unequal to the ancients in Poetry, Archi- $
ecture, Sculpture and Painting, have !
,reatly excelled them in every depart |
nent of science, and in those arts winch !
contribute to the support of civil life. If
hey can not claim superiority in the t
ormcr instances, it is not so much that g
heir abilities are inferior, as that these G
rts have certain boundaries which human
nperfection does not suffer us 10 pass. i
Wherever possibility of improvement
from the patient operations of b
ldustry or the efforts Of a vigorous and Il
rofound thinking, their endeavors have
Verywhere been successful. {
The result Of this inquiry will afford d
grateful reflection TO every benevolent
ind, as it efectualy refutes the gloomy
1inions which some have entertained, of
lie gradual degeneracy of the human
zee. We shall be convinced that the G
'wers Of genius and intellect still exist N
their original and native energy that j
is and sciences, however easily and
illtully managed by the aucients, we're
It, like the spear Of their Achilles, too
ighty to be handled by posterity land that 4
mental superiority is no more to be attri.
tied to the early ages of mankind, than at
e fabulous pretences of gigantic statrue. e,
No confidence however in our own attain
ents will justify us in Withdrawing our \
miration from the venerable characters -
Greece and Rome who have initiated
in the first principles of science, and U
epared our minds to relish everything an
blime and beautiful in the arts. III
We should remember likewise that 1t
ere are many parts of science which are an
comparatively in their infancy, and to
which the experience and knowledge of
ese times will perhaps be considered by
sterity as extremely limited. While a,
are therefore far from arrogantly as 81
ming to ourselves an immoderate share
we should look however erc
III becoming satisfactien on the age in at
ich it is our happiness to live, and let ma
be studious to approve ourselves worthy In
this privilege, by constant endeavor mes
promote the interests of learning, ana ing
general advantages Of mankind. suf
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