. Mere nature delineated: : or, A body without a soul. Being observations upon the young forester lately brought to town from Germany. With suitable applications. Also, a brief dissertation upon the usefulness and necessity of fools, whether political or natural . e. PARt [87] fee mm mm mm w mm mm mm PART IV. Of the Ufefuhefs and NeceJJity of Foolsin the prefent Age, and efpecially atthe Courts of Jbme Princes. O U may fee, I have now clone withthe Lunenburgber: The wild Subjectneed employ our Thoughts no farther,, till, in Confequence of the Labours ofhis learned Inftru&ors, he fhall let us f
. Mere nature delineated: : or, A body without a soul. Being observations upon the young forester lately brought to town from Germany. With suitable applications. Also, a brief dissertation upon the usefulness and necessity of fools, whether political or natural . e. PARt [87] fee mm mm mm w mm mm mm PART IV. Of the Ufefuhefs and NeceJJity of Foolsin the prefent Age, and efpecially atthe Courts of Jbme Princes. O U may fee, I have now clone withthe Lunenburgber: The wild Subjectneed employ our Thoughts no farther,, till, in Confequence of the Labours ofhis learned Inftru&ors, he fhall let us fee what hereally is, whether a Savage, or an Idiot; whethercapable or incapable ; Statefman or Mechanick ;and that, according to fuch Difcovery,.we maymake a Judgment of what may be to come, andof what we may expect from him. But as the various Appearances in which he hasbeen (hewn to us, have put the {peculating Worldupon talking gravely about him, fo I, among thereft; I hope, without Offence: This gave me fomeContemplation upon that Part of Mankind, who,I thought to be moft of kin to him; among whomI firft confider a Sort which the Worid callsPoliticians, or Statefrnen, and which others, withas much Juftice as Gravity, tell us, are to be G 4 reckoned. [88] reckond among the Savages and wild Creaturesof the World, who tis very hard to give an Ac-count of. Thefe are a Sort of People, who, indeed, ap-pear in feveral Shapes, and a 61 feveral Parts:They are, of late Years eipecially, found to bevery ufefd, if not neceffary to the World, chieflyby being good for nothing 5 are trufled with thegreater! Affairs of the World, even becaufe theyare fit to be trtilled with nothing, and are forne-times the greatefc, the ctinningefl, the wifefl, andthe word of Fools, becaufe of Men. What can be more rational, than to talk ofthefe People under the Head of Savages and wildPeople ? They are ravenous and devouring, as themofr Forefl-bred Creature in the World; theyprey upon their Fellow Animals
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