••bove them. In ease of body and peace of ••ind, all the different ranks of life are nearly ••pon a level, and the beggar, who suns him|••elf by the side of the highway, possesses that ••ecurity which kings are fighting for.
The same principle, the same love of sys|••em, the same regard to the beauty of order, ••f art and contrivance, frequently serves to ••ecommend those institutions, which tend to ••romote the public welfare. When a patriot ••xerts himself for the improvement of any ••art of the public police, his conduct does not ••lways arise from pure sympathy with the ••appiness of those, who are to reap the bene|••••t of it. It is not commonly from a fellow-••eeling with carriers and waggoners that a ••ublic spirited man encourages the mending ••f high roads. When the legislature estab|••••shes praemiums and other encouragements ••o advance the linnen or woollen manufactu|••es, its conduct seldom proceeds from pure ••••mpathy with the wearer of cheap or fine ••loth, and much less from that with the ma|••ufacturer, or merchant. The perfection of ••olice, the extension of trade and manufac|••ures, are noble and magnificent objects. The contemplation of them pleases us, and we are interested in whatever can tend to ad|vance
