or enter the ftomach, their fatal eftects will generally be counteracted by the application of antidotes, which time has difcovered to be little lefs than infallible. Beafts of prey will be extirpated; or they will be awed by the neighbourhood and by the power of man. The inhabitants of every city will fleep, unapprehenfive of the dagger of the affaffin; such as travel the public, and such as pursue the most private, road, wil alike be fecure from the lawless affault of the robber; and those, who traverse the trackless ocean, will navigate their fhips, and conduct their traffic, without recurring to any measures of defence against the defperate enterprizes of the pirate. Capital punishments will be annulled. Maxims of falfet honour will no longer give birth to duelling, nor despair to fuicide. Men will not be facrificed, as obftinate heritics, or as expiatory victims, at the suggestion of the bigot or the fanatic, From fucceffive improvements in the ftructure and the management of fhips; from a more complete and accurate knowledge of feas, and rocks, and winds; from the practical precautions fuggested by the great advances, which will doubtlefs be made in electricity; as well as from the ideas, which will generally prevail of the high value to be fet on human life, and the criminality of a wanton exposure of it to the hazard of destruction; a hope may not irrationally be entertained, that the fury of the tempeft will be difarmed of half its force, that the lightning will lofe much of its terrors, and that, in confequence, the relics of fhip-wrecked veffels will scarcely ever be caft even upon the most dangerous or the most commercial fhores. The torch of civil diffenfion and of domeftic treafon will be extinguifhed; and, the causes of the hoftility of nations being annihilated, or their interfering interefts being adjusted by mutual conceffion and amicable negotiation, no longer will thousands of the human race be collected to

gether

gether to flaughter each other, upon the field of battle,
or upon the bofom of the deep. Nor will a pacific be-
haviour be confined to thofe nations alone, which are
entitled civilized. The various tribes of favages, that in-
habit the lefs frequented climes, having undergone a
revolution in their manners and their fituation, will relin-
quifh the use of the arrow and the fpear, the battle-ax
and the scalping-knife, In the treatment of diseases, and
in the cure of wounds, ignorance and inexperience will
ceafe to be a fruitful fource of the deftruction of life;
and no longer will men be fwept away in crowds by
thofe contagious disorders, which care and skill are ca-
pable of remedying. Nor will they prematurely destroy
themselves by a courfe of debauchery, or by habits of
intoxication.

Sorrow and pain, also, in comparison of the ascendant
they formerly had upon the globe, may be faid to be ex-
cluded from it; for with the former things, which are
paffed away, with Bad Government and Falfe Religion,
not only war, difcord, and peftilence will, in a great
degree, be banished from the world; but also thofe
other evils which naturally flow from the fame fources,
floth and ignorance, hypocrify and perfecution, fuper-
ftition and infidelity, exceffive poverty and intemperate
labour.