the senses, but for all time past, and for all time to come; and secondly, there must also be perception, with power like an eagle's eye, to see at a glance from far beyond the reach of vulgar organs, not merely the hare to satisfy his present want, but all the vast extent of states and empires, with one, and with the other eye, the sun which gives light to the earth.

Learned men have long contended that it was impossible for any human intellect to grasp what has been here attempted,—that a Cyclopædia only, could embrace in one view, all the arts and sciences, which minister to man's necessity and happiness-and that they give but little credit for, as a Cyclopædia is a mere arbitary alphabetical arrangement. We would not say we have done even what we have, without much toil and sacrifice. It has cost the best ten years of the writer's life, to settle its great principles, and give it form and substance. The world has been the book, the teacher, God and nature. The mere writing is most unimportant. The thought is all. The great interests of man were in a state of

chaos, and this science is to harmonize them, and run side by side with true religion, so far as that is meant, "to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and make on earth, peace and good will to man."

These remarks are made, that none may lightly damn the work.

examine first their own

Let them, we repeat, hearts and heads, and

learn if they are qualified to speak or write upon it. The poorest and most ignorant, with sound moral and mental powers, has faculties to judge, far better than he, who with envious. and contracted feelings, seeks only to detract from good, and embitter the existence of such as they may envy, but not emulate, with all of their advantages of Greek, and Latin, Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabic, nouns, and pronouns.

This is the age of words. We mean in political and moral science, as well we fear, as in true religion. While mechanical and chemical sciences are advancing with such rapid strides, that excessive production has become a bugbear, the vast majority of the most enlightened nations are now dying from diseases superin

duced by excessive labor, and deficient nourishment, and clothing. It is all owing to vapid words, words, words. Men should be ashamed to write huge tomes, while those who want the information most, have neither time to read nor means to buy.

There is such a thing as learned verbose folly, ' and also pigmies in long gowns on stilts; and they may nod or shake their heads, like plaster Chinese mandarins, as dealers in small wares may pull the wires for effect; but the PEOPLE need not care, and to the PEOPLE we appeal from all self-constituted arbiters. But liberal criticism will be accepted as a favor; and writers who may undertake the task, will confer an obligation by directing a copy of their articles, to the author, at New York, from England, France, or Germany, or any part of our own country, where this work

may reach. Such as may take the trouble will receive the author's best acknowledgments. His tone may seem not strictly according to bien science, and he must claim indulgence from the men of real

judgment and good feeling, while he lashes out the money changers from the temples of just criticism. They expect a tribute, and we pay them in advance,

THE

SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT,

FOUNDED ON

NATURAL LAW.

Producer. I toil, and others reap the fruits. Who will show me real good? To whatsoever point I turn my sorrowing regards, nought but misery, and the prospect of still greater misery do I witness. Whichsoever party gains the victory, we still bear the burdens of society. In Great Britain also, the land from which our statesmen with an apparrent consciousness of mental weakness, copy all their precedents and principles of law and government, it is selfevident, that with the increase of the means of happiness, the great body of producers have the less and less, and if like causes still effect like consequences, so must it be in time with