etually encompass us, when they are beautiful and elegant in their
kind.

9. In the East, where the warmth of the climates makes cleanliness more
immediately necessary than in colder countries, it is made one part of
their religion; the Jewish law (and the Mahometan, which, in somethings,
copies after it) is filled with bathings, purifications, and other rites
of the like nature. Though there is the above named convenient reason to
be assigned for these ceremonies, the chief intention, undoubtedly, was
to typify inward purity and cleanliness of heart by those outward
washings.

10. We read several injunctions of this kind in the book of Deuteronomy,
which confirms this truth, and which are but ill accounted for by
saying, as some do, that they were only instituted for convenience in
the desert, which otherways could not have been habitable, for so many
years.

11. I shall conclude this essay with a story which I have some where
read in an account of Mahometan superstition. A dervise of great
sanctity one morning had the misfortune, as he took up a crystal cup,
which was consecrated to the prophet, to let it fall upon the ground and
dash it in pieces. His son coming in some time after, he stretched out
his hand to bless him, as his manner was every morning; but the youth
going out stumbled over the threshold and broke his arm. As the old man
wondered at those events, a caravan passed by in its way from _Mecca_.
The dervise approached it to beg a blessing; but as he stroked one of
the holy camels, he received a kick from the beast, that sorely bruised
him. His sorrow and amazement increased upon him, till he recollected,
that, through hurry and inadvertency, he had that morning come abroad
without washing his hands.

_The Advantages of a good Education_.

1. I consider a human soul without education like marble in the quarry,
which shews none of its inherent beauties, until the skill of the
polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers
every ornamental cloud, spot and vein, that runs through the body of it.
Education, after the same manner, when it works, upon a noble mind,
draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, which, without
such helps, are never able to make their appearance.

2. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion so soon upon
him, I shall make use of the same instance to illustrate the force of
education, which _Aristotle_ has brought to explai