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Article SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF M. BRISSOT. ← Page 3 of 3 Article ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. Page 1 of 6 →
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Sketch Of The Life Of M. Brissot.
draw these personal wants into a small compass was the true mode of attaining independence . To have attached myself to the stud y ' of philosophy , I would have sacrificed all considerations whatsoever ; I would have become a school-master like Winkelmann , or a tutor like Rousseau . Fortunately , I was not constrained to sacrifice my liberty . Friendshi p came to my assistance , and the death of my respectable father empowered to the obli
me discharge gations which I had contracted towards my friends . Buried in my solitude , although an inhabitant of Paris , I was enabled to gratify , during two years , my passion for the sciences , and to prepare that immense mass of materials , out of which I was to reap advantages , whensoever the time should come to employ them . " This is iven with double leasurenot onl gratifing to curi
g p , y as y - osity , but as subservient . to use . Too prone to be over-tempted by politics , the splendour sometimes seen upon corruption , and the easy perquisites which , now and then attend upon lucky vice , it must be salutary for men to take to opposite objects of arduous virtue and of patient study !—the struggles of toil , and the surprises of wit !—To think of BayleMiltonand Samuel Johnsonliving b little school !
, , , y a Steele and Goldsmith , with daily labours in journals , earning magnificently their dail y dinner ! Diderot ,- to keep himself at college , gave lessons to a lower class—and Winkelmann , that he mi ght indul ge each honourable wish towards study and travel , lived upon bread and water * and travelled over Europe on foot !
On The Study Of Natural Philosophy.
ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
MR . Locke has very judicioufl y distinguished , and concisely dis-_ posed , the various pursuits of human knowled ge , in his general division of the sciences : every object which can fall within the compass of the understanding , being , as he justly observes , comprehended either in the nature of things , the duties of moral action , or the use of the signsbwhich our knowled of either is acquired
, y ge and communicated . Physics , or natural philosophy , instructs us in the investigation of the first ; its object being , the constitution of things , their properties and respective operations . ¦ These present the most extensive field for speculation and enquiry ; the inquisitive mind finding inexhaustible fountains at which to quench its thirst of knowledge , flowing from of the universe
every corner . Ethics , or moral philosophy , comprehends the second , and is a part of science less calculated for speculation , but more practical and confined ; limited , however , as it is , and important as its cultivation is to society , the prejudices and passions of mankind are such insurmountable obstacles to its perfection , that though virtue and " happiness , its two great objects , have been matters of debate almost Iron . VOL . II . Zz
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Sketch Of The Life Of M. Brissot.
draw these personal wants into a small compass was the true mode of attaining independence . To have attached myself to the stud y ' of philosophy , I would have sacrificed all considerations whatsoever ; I would have become a school-master like Winkelmann , or a tutor like Rousseau . Fortunately , I was not constrained to sacrifice my liberty . Friendshi p came to my assistance , and the death of my respectable father empowered to the obli
me discharge gations which I had contracted towards my friends . Buried in my solitude , although an inhabitant of Paris , I was enabled to gratify , during two years , my passion for the sciences , and to prepare that immense mass of materials , out of which I was to reap advantages , whensoever the time should come to employ them . " This is iven with double leasurenot onl gratifing to curi
g p , y as y - osity , but as subservient . to use . Too prone to be over-tempted by politics , the splendour sometimes seen upon corruption , and the easy perquisites which , now and then attend upon lucky vice , it must be salutary for men to take to opposite objects of arduous virtue and of patient study !—the struggles of toil , and the surprises of wit !—To think of BayleMiltonand Samuel Johnsonliving b little school !
, , , y a Steele and Goldsmith , with daily labours in journals , earning magnificently their dail y dinner ! Diderot ,- to keep himself at college , gave lessons to a lower class—and Winkelmann , that he mi ght indul ge each honourable wish towards study and travel , lived upon bread and water * and travelled over Europe on foot !
On The Study Of Natural Philosophy.
ON THE STUDY OF NATURAL PHILOSOPHY .
FOR THE FREEMASONS' MAGAZINE .
MR . Locke has very judicioufl y distinguished , and concisely dis-_ posed , the various pursuits of human knowled ge , in his general division of the sciences : every object which can fall within the compass of the understanding , being , as he justly observes , comprehended either in the nature of things , the duties of moral action , or the use of the signsbwhich our knowled of either is acquired
, y ge and communicated . Physics , or natural philosophy , instructs us in the investigation of the first ; its object being , the constitution of things , their properties and respective operations . ¦ These present the most extensive field for speculation and enquiry ; the inquisitive mind finding inexhaustible fountains at which to quench its thirst of knowledge , flowing from of the universe
every corner . Ethics , or moral philosophy , comprehends the second , and is a part of science less calculated for speculation , but more practical and confined ; limited , however , as it is , and important as its cultivation is to society , the prejudices and passions of mankind are such insurmountable obstacles to its perfection , that though virtue and " happiness , its two great objects , have been matters of debate almost Iron . VOL . II . Zz