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Let me be for moment the echo of your poIiti-
cal eegies: what have become of the monuments
of civilized pride Are not Thebes and Babylon,
Athens and Carthage transformed into heaps ol
rubbish and what a prognostcation for London
and Paris, and fer those modern Empires whose
mercantile strife and madness already oppress
Reason as they do Nature Tired OF eur So
cieties, she overwhems them one after another,
and derides without, distinction our pretended vr-
tues and our crimes: laws reputed as oracles of
wisdom, and the ephemeral codes of political
agitaors, lead alike to political shipwreck.


As the hight of disgrace to our political sciences,
we have seen the rude Legislation of China and In
dia brave for four thousand years the sythe OF lime,
while the prodigics of civilized PoIitcs have passed
like shade. Our Sciences, after so many efforts
to consolidate Empires, seem only to have laborcd
to furnish objects of destruction for Revolution and
Vandalism, which break out periodically and de-
stroy in short time the works of centuries
Some monuments have survived, but for the shame
of civilized Politics. Rome and Constaniinople
formerly Capitals of the greatest OF Empires, have
become two Metropolises of folly; in the former,
the temples of the Caesars invaded by The Gods
of Juaea: a, the Bosphorus, the temples of Chris
tianty are defled by the Gods of Ignorance. Here,
ST. Peter is raised upon the pedestal of Jupiter;
there, Mahomet places himself upon the altar oi
Jesus. Rome and Consantinople! Nature has pre-
served you to devote you the contempt OF the Ma
tions which you had enchaine3: you have become
TIVE arenas c: political uggeries. which have spread
their evils TO the Orient and TO the Occideut- Ma
ture insults by your degradation the great Empire
which she has destroyed; you arc two mumnies,
preserved to ornament her of triumph ana TO
give modern Capitals foretasie of the fate re-
served to the monuments and works of Civilization.