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    peace , war , government , and education / ' On the last he appears to have anticipated some modern ad vantages : he asks , ' May not the education of children be improved ? and ** How much might the methods be abridged to leach

    them so much of each science , of each art , as every age is capable of comprehending ? " As to forms of government , while he conciliates monarchs , and would engage them to realize his projects , by the

    hope of a long-continued dynasty , he appears to prefer a republic , such as the Dutch , where " they have few of those lazy sharks who in Spain are called nobles , where

    the hope of favour does not change a plain downright merchant , one that is useful to the republic , to a supple , polite , complaisant courtier ) agreeable to the prince , and of ih > us « to the state .

    At the close of this translation is ah advertisement announcing a setolid part , as in the press , but which I never met with , containing answers to sixty-two objections , ooe of which is that * ' war is a

    necessary consequence of original ti& ''" another not so easily oven , come , that * there are many more passions , and those more powerful , for the system of war , than for the system of peace . "

    On the last page is a short letter to the English bookseller , signed , " L'Abbe de Saint Pierre , * ' and dated « A Paris au Palai * Royal , 1 * Avril , 1714 /* promising a sup * plementary sheet .

    In a former paper I availed my-* lfof the « Eloge de Saint Pierre /' ty t >' Alembert ; he says that Cardinal Fleury , on receiving from * be author a copy of his Project , replied to him , You l ? ave forgot-^ n an essential article—to send

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    missionaries to dispose the minds of princes to your design . D'Alerafeert relates a pleasantry on St * Pierre by a Datch trader , who set up as his sign a church-yard ,

    with this motto , d la paixperpetuelle * The eulogist describes , as the $ rror of our author , in common with most benevolent projectors , that he supposes all princes just and moderate ; or that men

    conscious of supreme power , often ill-informed t always surrounded by falsehood and flattery , might indulge dispositions which even private men , under the restraint of law and the fear of censure ,

    so seldom possess . He adds , that whoever forms schemes for the good of mankind , without taking into the account the passions and vices of men , will only imagine a pleasing chimera . ' This Project ,

    as he remarks , Rousseau revived many years after its first appearance , with all the # ornaraents of his eloquence , but without more effect than in the simple form of St . Pierre .

    I know not that any other writer has referred to the Project . A recollection of Henry ' s design , as detailed by Sully , forms an inte ~ resting conclusion to a small volume , published in 17 ^ 6 , aud

    entitled , * A bhort History ot English Transactions in the East Indies , " which I have mentioned , p . 220 . The anonymous author , who appears well acquainted with British enormities in India , supposes Henry ' s congress of civilized states , assembled by their de ^

    puties at Rome , and introduces an enumeration of the wrongs of India , endured for British aggrandizement , by asking u Who are these alighting from their camels ? They are ihe deputies from Ben-

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    Book-Worm . No . XVI . 753

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    VO L . IX . 5 £

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 753, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/25/