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3 those arts, by which the more immediate wants of mankind were to be supplied, their Bnet emotions excited and cherished, and their dominion over the productions of the globe extended and perfected. * And after the greater part of the human race and their works, had been mvolved in ‘one tremendous scene of general destruction, when society again revived, wherever states were formed, and intellectual man was distinguished from the predatory and the savage, the same disposition to record whatever was eminently great, becomes apparent. The. arts of panting and sculpture, the pens of the historian and the poet, imscriptions en-

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 * Genesis iv. 20-22.