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 y ¬Solomon — 'There is that scattered] yet in-' ' creaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more ' than enough, yet it tendeth to poverty.' ¬I thought I had now exhausted all the social satisfactions of this great city, when a new world suddenly burst upon me through my in- troduction to many philosophical and literary institutions, of some of which I was even- ad- mitted a member. — In science, they said, there were no aliens; and it was happily remarked in one of thetri, by a stranger from a distant country, that as many charitable foundations of the capital rejecting local qualifications, ex- tended their benevolence to all who were in dis- tress, so her philosophical bodies would be al- ways ready to embrace the whole intellectual world. Nothing indeed ever interested me so highly as to see, every where throughout Armata, the vigorous and capacious mind of man, cast- ing off all the fetters and entanglements which impede it in the search after truth, vindicating ¬i C the ¬