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tribe against tribe, and of nation
against nation; and hence, because
Wnere there are no violations of
political justice, there can exist no
compacts to restrain political crimes
and expressions, the whole science
OF government, which only aims at
securing to man his RIGHTS and
guarding him against zvrouos, arose
from violations of equity and Justice
without which political government
would have been unknown.
But, Notwithstanding these com
pacts of political government. and
because men still continued to vio-
late the rights of their fellow citi-
zens, leagued under the same polit
zeal compact, it became necessary
to enact by legislation, and enforce
by municipal laws, the observance
OF justice between man and man:
and hence, from the crimes and in
justice of man, also arose the MU-
NIcIPAL CODES of law, civil and
criminal of all the nations of the
globe.
And, now, let us advance a step
further in the application of these
principles, and we shall soon dis
cover, that from the sufferings and
crimes of mankind. since their fatal
degradation in Eden, have arisen
the two great sciences of PHYsIc
and DIVINITY, which with that
Municipal La7O, embrace and de-
velop the greatest discoveries of
mankind. The science of MEDI-
CINE, which embraces the healing
of all diseases of physical nature,
and includes all the principles of
the other physical sciences, Botany,
Chemistry, etc, etc. would have re-
manned unknown, because useless to
man, had he not found himself sub
jected to disease, suffering, and pain
and been compelled to seek, in
the exercise of his own genius, the
means of mitigating his sufierings.
The great and sacred science of
DIVINITY itself-which aims at ex-
pounding the ScribturaI la7vs of
God, had its origin in the fall of
man, and in the moral and physical
ff1ictions of his race. The obscura
ton of human reason, derived from
the degradation of mankind, and
from consequent ignorance of all
moral duties, gave rise to REEVE
LAT1oN of the laws of God to man,
on which laws are based the whole
science of Divinity, and all our as
surance o. IMMORTALITY! Reason
but obscurely poiiT,tts out the duties
of man to himself, his Is~llow man.
and his MAKER, and only leads nm
to hope for immortality; while the
Scriptures are clear and explicit on
all these great subjects, and supply
all the deficiencies of mans con-
founded and obscurated reasoning
powers.
Even the principles of GENERAL
SCIENCE, had their origin in the
weakness, wants, and affections of
mankind; and in the vast capacities
of human genius to remedy the evils
of life! The wants of man, and
his capacity for physical enjoyment,
made him an Agricultural, Me
chanic, and a Manufacturer; the
same wants and capacities of enjoy
ment, made him an exchanger of
commodities with his fellow man,
and gave use to the great system of
COMMERCE, the construction OF
Navies, and the PRINCIPLES of As
tronomy, by which he measures the
heavens, and directs his course over
trackless and unknown oceans; the
same wants and capacities, and his
subsection to zVrongs in a state of
nature, taught him to organize gov
ernments founded in justice, and mu-
nicipal laws founded in equity. The
same wants and necessities made
him a Physician and Divine, and
taught him the pinciples and prac-
tice of these two great sciences,
which meliorate his sufferings here
and hereafter. In fine, getlemen, it
is the native weakness of man,
through the fundamentally and ex-
ertions of powerful genius, stimu-
lated by difficulties and dangers,
wants and suferings, that we are
to look for the real strength and
character; nor is it less true, how
ever novel the doctrine may seem,
that in the errors and misfortunes
of man, and his subsection to innm
nsera6le evils, are only to be found
the sources of his improvements,
and of his superior wisdom! Man
would never have exerted his gen
Jus, to supply wants which he felt
not, to overcome dangers which did
not threaten him, or to correct errors
of moral conduct, which produced
neither injuries nor suffering; so that,
in his original weaknesses we find
his greatest strengths, in his original
wants his greatest resources, in his
original sufferings his greatest en-
ioyments, and in his original igno-
rance his greatest wisdom
These are the bold and original,
though ragged and unfinished out
lines, of the whole history of mans
conflicts with ignorance and suffer
ing, and of his struggles for enjoy
ment and happiness, which | leave
for philosophy and genius superior
to mine, to fill up and embellish tor
the public taste. The subjects which
have only touched in outline,
would REQUIRE a volume for their