CONTENTS. and positive Influence, to the Promotion of SECT. III. On some Evils particularly incident to a retired Life, and which are contrary, SECT 1.-On the Happiness arising from the Independence, the agricultural Pursuits, the SECT. II. A retired Life considered in re- spect to Utility 324..340 341..351 SECT. III.-The Utility of Monasteries con- CONCLUSION.In which it is considered, how far the Principles of the foregoing P. 187. l. ERRATA. 1. for chains of cause, read chain of causes. P. 212. 1. 10. for vicissitudes, read vicissitude. P. 309. 1. 10. for discernable, read discernible. Should a few other typographical errors have escaped, it is hoped they will readily be excused on account of the author's distance from the press. RURAL PHILOSOPHY. PART I. REFLECTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE. SECTION I. On the Knowledge of God; particularly in his Justice and Benignity towards Man. II. This Knowledge unattainable in any satisfactory Degree, without the Light of Revelation. III. To be sought by Study and Prayer in Conjunction. Ir is remarked by Wollaston, that truth is the offspring of silence, of unbroken meditations, and of thoughts often revised and corrected. This observation, though it holds in respect to human knowledge in general, is peculiarly applicable to some of its higher branches. To investigate the more abstruse properties of number and figure, or to explore the secrets of nature, a man must exchange the tumultuous scenes of business, B |