PROPOSALS

FOR A

RURAL INSTITUTE.

Ty what is termed a state of nature, the wild woodland savage subsists on the na- tural products which the woods he inha- bits provide him: he gathers fruits in due season, and contends, for animal food, with the other wild animals of the forest. And, like them, men destroy each other in fighting for the scanty produce: thus keeping down population to the natural standard of the supply of food.

In this state, theart military is the prin- cipal art of life: war and rapine are as essential to the existence of the species, in the savage state, as agriculture is, in a state of cultivated nature; and, judging from the prevailing politics of European