. I was unable to treat this part of my subject more in
detail
, without becoming dry and tedious; or more
poetically
, without sacrificing perspicuity to ornament, without wandring from the precision, or breaking the chain of reasoning: If any man can unite all these without diminution of any of them, I freely confess he will compass a thing above my capacity.
What is now published, is only to be considered as a
general Map
of
Man
, marking out no more than the