If Everyone Is Thinking Alike,

If The New Universal History Were Also Read, It Would Give A Connected Idea Of Human Affairs, So Far As It Goes, Which Should Be Followed By The Best Modern Histories, Particularly Of Our Mother Country; Then Of These Colonies; Which Should Be Accompanied With Observations On Their Rise, Increase, Use To Great Britain, Encouragements And Discouragements, The Means To Make Them Flourish, And Secure Their Liberties.

No Man Ever Was Glorious, Who Was Not Laborious.

The Poor Man Must Walk To Get Meat For His Stomach, The Rich Man To Get A Stomach To His Meat.

What Signifies Philosophy That Does Not Apply To Some Use? May We Not Learn From Hence, That Black Clothes Are Not So Fit To Wear In A Hot Sunny Climate Or Season, As White Ones; Because In Such Cloaths The Body Is More Heated By The Sun When We Walk Abroad, And Are At The Same Time Heated By The Exercise, Which Double Heat Is Apt To Bring On Putrid Dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers And Seamen, Who Must March And Labour In The Sun, Should In The East Or West Indies Have An Uniform Of White?

Furnished As All Europe Now Is With Academies Of Science, With Nice Instruments And The Spirit Of Experiment, The Progress Of Human Knowledge Will Be Rapid And Discoveries Made Of Which We Have At Present No Conception. I Begin To Be Almost Sorry I Was Born So Soon, Since I Cannot Have The Happiness Of Knowing What Will Be Known A Hundred Years Hence.