with pleasure how the progress of reason and truth have put prejudice and falsity to flight "As steals the morn upon the night Perhaps, in the Golden-Age, the care to prevent diseases may, in great measure, fuperfede the use of a physician; for as Iago well obferves," it is in ourselves that we are thus, or thus." Diseases are created by misconduct and intemperance, but in the days of perfection, (and not 'till then) there will be no misconduct nor intemperance. If accidents require affiftance, and art is found neceffary, it will be confidered not as a director of nature, but an humble affiftant only-this is almost the case at prefent, as was observed in the Silver-Age. "To chastise, so as to prevent crimes by the influence of example, and to restore the culprit to fociety by restoring him him to virtue; these are the principles which ought to direct the legislature in its establishment of penal laws"-fays M. Jallet. At prefent, the legislature feeks no more than to prevent crimes in general, by the punishment of individuals, but we may suppose that the progrefs of virtue will at last make penal laws unneceffary; for man fins only when reafon ceases to govern, and we are fuppofing a state when it reigns unfettered by custom, and unopposed by folly or vice. As fcience is an accumulation of acquirements by a long fucceffion of individuals, given to the world, and preserved throughout all ages by the art of writing, and more perfectly by that of printing; one man poffefling former discoveries, begins where his predeceffors ceased, and after extending the line of knowledge, leaves it to be farther extended by his fucceffors. If science were not in its nature infinite, we muft, according to our plan, plan, fuppofe it arrived at perfectiou in the Golden-Age-but, it is no detraction from human capacity to fuppofe it incapable of infinite exertion, or of exhausting an infinite fubject-in the GoldenAge, the progress to perfection will not be checked, but continued to the last existence of society. Studies, which have the different departments of nature for their purfuit, are inexhaustible-every animal, vegetable, mineral, fstone, earth, all natural productions furnish a field for interesting enquiry; the more we examine, the greater are our discoveries. An idea of the formation of the world, and its fubfequent variations, is in some measure already attained. This subject has much attracted the attention of modern philosophers, but longer and more extended enquiries are neceffary to perfect the theory of the globe.. At present it it seems to be established, that the furface of the earth was once beneath the ocean, and that it has also received many modifications from the action of firethat both fire and water are continually destroying and new-forming this furface, and most probably will continue their action to its laft existence. The geographical study of the globe must wait for a more advanced period than the present, before it will be compleated. Not much above three centuries have elapfed, fince any attempts of confequence have been made to attain a knowledge of the planet we inhabit, and we are ftill but very imperfectly acquainted with it. In the Golden-Age these entertaining and interefting enquiries will attain the certainty and perfection which are characteristic of that happy æra. To judge of future improvements in the microscope and telescope, by the past -the time will arrive, when our present inftruments inftruments will be confidered as firft efforts, if the production of the Herschellian telescope may not be confidered as an anticipation of the period we are defcribing. Perhaps, fome other power may be discovered as forcible and as manageable as the evaporation from boiling wateranother gunpowder that may superfede the prefent-and other applications of the mechanical powers, which may make our prefent wonders fink into vulgar performances. In poetry, we fhall difcriminate between fubjects capable of being adorned by numbers, and those which are better expreffed in profe. By rejecting common phraseology, we fhall appropriate a language for poetical purposes, and at laft attain to unite the correct with the fublime. In |