trade, shall become a Sir Peter Delme, a Sir Richard Hopkins, a Sir

Gilbert Heathcote, whilst a poor algebraist spends his whole life in

searching for astonishing properties and relations in numbers, which

at the same time are of no manner of use, and will not acquaint him

with the nature of exchanges. This is very nearly the case with

most of the arts: there is a certain point beyond which all

researches serve to no other purpose than merely to delight an

inquisitive mind. Those ingenious and useless truths may be