LXXXIV ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND

Nor is any thing wanting to make the remedy ef-fectual, but wife inflitutions to facilitate generalinftruClion, and to adapt the education ol indivi-duals to the ftations they are to occupy. The mindof the artift, which, from the limited fphere ofhis activity, would fink below the level of thepeafant or the favage, might receive in infancy themeans of intellectual enjoyment, and the feeds ofmoral improvement; and even the infipid unifor-mity of his profeffional engagements, by prefent-ing no objeCt to awaken his ingenuity or to cliffracThis attention , might leave him at liberty to em-ploy his faculties, on fubje&s more interefting tohimfelf, and more extenfively ufeful to others.

Thefe effeCts, notwithftanding a variety of oppo-fing caufes which ftill exift, have already refulted,in a very fenfible degree , from the liberal policyof modern times. Mr. Hume, in his Elfay onCommerce, after taking notice of the numerousarmies raifed and maintained by the fmall repub-lics in the ancient world, afcribes the militarypower of thefe Hates to their want of commerce andluxury. “ Few artifans were maintained by theu labor of the farmers, and therefore more lol-“ diers might live upon it.” He adds, however,that “ the policy of ancient times was violent,“ and contrary to the natural eourfe of things;”—by which, I prefume, he means, that it aimedtoo much at modifying, by the force of pofitive