Excerpt from The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, 1806, Vol. 3: Containing Sketches and Reports of Philosophy, Religion, History, Arts and Manners These things must be ao, while human nature remains what it is. Toil and trouble will ever be shuna ned Society indeed renders them more tolerable by the compensa tion it gives for them; and as this advances in real improvement, the compensation will increase, and of course the labour will more readily be procured. To correct our errors, we must trace them to their source. This consideration has induced me, to present the pre ceding and the following obser vations on the causes, which lead the faculty into the habit of thee onzmg. I have lightened the censure, which is thrown upon us by spreading a part of it on the broad shoulders of [coor human nature I mean to charge the remainder to a fault of our patients and their friends. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.