Footnote 4:

� The influence of the philosophic spirit, in humanizing the mind, and preparing it for intellectual exertion and delicate pleasure;—in exploring, by the help of geometry, the system of the universe;—in banishing superstition; in promoting navigation, agriculture, medicine, and moral and political science.

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Footnote 5:

� 'To explore:' this, from Thomson, who says in his 'Summer'—

Which even imagination fears to tread.

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