[Henry Fielding] . ad usinto fresh matters, we will here stop to account for thevisible alteration in Mr AUworthys mind, and theabatement of his anger to Jones. Revolutions of thiskind, it is true, do frequently occur in histories anddramatic writers, for no other reason than because thehistory or play draws to a conclusion, and are justifiedby authority of authors ; yet, though we insist upon asmuch authority as any author whatever, we shall usethis power very sparingly, and never but when we aredriven to it by necessity, which we do not at presentforesee will happen in this work. This altera
[Henry Fielding] . ad usinto fresh matters, we will here stop to account for thevisible alteration in Mr AUworthys mind, and theabatement of his anger to Jones. Revolutions of thiskind, it is true, do frequently occur in histories anddramatic writers, for no other reason than because thehistory or play draws to a conclusion, and are justifiedby authority of authors ; yet, though we insist upon asmuch authority as any author whatever, we shall usethis power very sparingly, and never but when we aredriven to it by necessity, which we do not at presentforesee will happen in this work. This alteration then in the mind of Mr Allworthywas occasioned by a letter he had just received fromMr Square, and which we shall give the reader in thebeginning of the next chapter. Containing tivo letters in very different stiles. A 4^ Y Worthy Friend,—I informed you in my last 2 y 1^ that I was forbidden the use of the waters, as they were found by experience rather to increase than lessen the symptoms of my distemper. I. ,*^^ c5 TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING. 21$ must now acquaint you with a piece of news, which, Ibelieve, will afflict my friends more than it hath afflictedme. Dr Harrington and Dr Brewster have informedme that there is no hopes of my recovery. I have somewhere read, that the great use ofphilosophy is to learn to die. I will not therefore sofar disgrace mine as to shew any surprize at receiving alesson which I must be thought to have so long , to say the truth, one page of the Gospel teachesthis lesson better than all the volumes of antient ormodern philosophers. The assurance it gives us ofanother life is a much stronger support to a good mindthan all the consolations that are drawn from the neces-sity of nature, the emptiness or satiety of our enjoy-ments here, or any other topic of those declamationswhich are sometimes capable of arming our minds witha stubborn patience in bearing the thoughts of death,but never of raising them to a real contempt of it, andmuc
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