It Is Not Very Unreasonable That The

The Learned Ignore The Evidence Of Their Senses To Preserve The Coherence Of The Ideas Of Their Imagination.

By Pursuing His Own Interest (the Individual) Frequently Promotes That Of The Society More Effectually Than When He Really Intends To Promote It. I Have Never Known Much Good Done By Those Who Affected To Trade For The Public Good.

But Poverty, Though It Does Not Prevent The Generation, Is Extremely Unfavourable To The Rearing Of Children. The Tender Plant Is Produced, But In So Cold A Soil, And So Severe A Climate, Soon Withers And Dies.

The Man Of System, On The Contrary, Is Apt To Be Very Wise In His Own Conceit; And Is Often So Enamoured With The Supposed Beauty Of His Own Ideal Plan Of Government, That He Cannot Suffer The Smallest Deviation From Any Part Of It... He Seems To Imagine That He Can Arrange The Different Members Of A Great Society With As Much Ease As The Hand Arranges The Different Pieces Upon A Chess-board. He Does Not Consider That...in The Great Chess-board Of Human Society, Every Single Piece Has A Principle Of Motion Of Its Own, Altogether Different From That Which The Legislature Might Choose To Impress Upon It.

The Ancient Egyptians Had A Superstitious Antipathy To The Sea; A Superstition Nearly Of The Same Kind Prevails Among The Indians; And The Chinese Have Never Excelled In Foreign Commerce.