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 ¬mcnts I have spoken of, will open a passage for itself till the invaded equilibrium is restored. ¬In all the other branches of knowledge I found this highly favoured island as eminently exalted ; and, on looking into the best accounts of other countries, which were as nothing in the scale, I should have wondered at the phe- nomenon of her wisdom and greatness, were it not clear, that when Providence appoints a na- tion for extraordinary duties, she must be fur- nished with the means to fulfil them. — The lower world is left to the guidance of various in- stincts, which are sufficient for the parts to be sustained, and animals, from age to age, are there- fore every where the same; but Man has a nobler office, and is sifted according to the work which is in hand.- — This was my clue to the biography of Armata — and I thought I saw, in a long and shadowy train before me, the martyrs to her pure religion — her patriots expiring on the scaffold and in the field for her laws and ¬liberties — ¬