SALMA GUND I. SECOND SERIES. BY LAUNCELOT LANGSTAFF, Esq. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. UNIV. OF NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, AND SOLD BY THE PRINCIPAL BOOKSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES. 18 35. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1835, By HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. SALMAGUNDI. No. VIII-SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1819. FROM MY ELBOW CHAIR. THAT every age is, as it were, an improved edition of the preceding one, and that in the natural course of events, the human race is making a gradual advance to a state of comparative perfectibility in knowledge and virtue, I think cannot be doubted by an accurate observer of what is going on in the world. The daily discoveries in science; the vast improvements in the mechanical arts; the immense number of societies for disseminating religion, and bettering the morals of the race of mankind—and, above all, the prodigious advances made of late years in the mode of educating children, cannot fail in due time of producing that great consummation denominated the Millennium. The present age is, however, most particularly distinguished for the singular improvement made M84975 |