as the most expeditious method of extricating one self, in all the cases
the specify, and where there is a necessity for recourse to extremities?
Can you think, that these personages have all spent their time in vain?
A N S W E R
ALMOST all the
sciences and arts attain to perfection, in process of time, through the
experience and assiduous attention of those who cultivate them. We owe
the most of our rare and precious inventions to the ages of barbarism,
in which as yet reigned that brutality and ignorance which the irruption
of the northern swarms had diffused over all Europe. This invention and
perfection of arts cannot be attributed to merely human industry; but,
with more probability, to a particular over-ruling providence, which commonly
concealing itself under what seems to us the weakest, and under occurences
which appear to us the effect of chance, have guided men to wonderful
discoveries. Do not we owe to a fair Circaffian the art of inoculating
children? And surely the art of midwifery,
