Our liberty is built on virtue, and fo is our national strength. I hope the riches acquired by our commerce will not deceive us into our ruin; but that we fhall make up our accounts and pay our debts; and not amufe ourselves with notions of being fo much richer than we really are, left distress should come upon us like an armed man. In the mean time we may naturally turn our thoughts to other joys; the pleasures of temperance and humanity; the awful fear of God; and the joyful hope of his favor. Thefe, like the foul, which is their true object, will, in the language of the Poet, "Flourish in immortal youth, "Unburt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds !" 1 In a word, fo long as the earth fhall endure, may we hope by virtuous liberty to flourish as a nation; and render every indi vidual, vidual, through the travel of numerous ages to come, as happy as the advanta- CON- The SECOND VOLUME. LETTER I. General Reflections on Mortality. Page 1 LETTER III. Further View of the Mortality of Human LETTER IV. Obfervations on the preceding Computations, and an Estimate of Life with regard to Death. LETTER V. Further Moral and religious Reflections on the common Condition of Human Life. LETTER VII. The Application of the preceding Anecdotes LETTER VIII. The Advantages of a proper Education of LETTER IX. The Duty of Prayer to young Perfons, as Apprentices and others, on the Foundation of this Plan of LETTER XI. Chriftian Knowledge in a Chriftian Countrys effential to Civilization and Liberty. P. 59 LETTER XII. A Plan for promoting a just Sense of Religion on the Minds of the common People. LETTER XIII. Obfervations on the preceding Plan: LETTER XIV. Further Obfervations on the Plan. 66 72 77 LETTER XV. An Eflimate of the Poor's Rate within the Bills of Mortality, and the medium Price of nursing and maintaining the Poor. 82 LETTER XVI. A general Eftimate of National Expence, in a comparative View of the Expence of Individuals. 86 LETTER XVII. A general Eftimate of the national Income, and the Expence of Individuals. 90 LETTER XVIII. Enquiry into our Numbers, and the State of the common People, respecting the Price of maintaining Life, and our Dependance on the Sweat of their Brows. 97 LETTER XIX. Further Enquiry into the State of the Poor. 102 109 LETTER XX. The Relief of the Diftreffed effential to 116 LETTER XXII. Virtue and Prudence effential to the political Welfare of the Nation. LETTER XXIII. The bad Effects of lofing fo many Subjects in thefe Cities, and fome probable Remedies to prevent it. 122 LETTER XXIV. The Lofs of the Infant Poor one great Caufe of the general Lofs in the Bills of Mortality. 132 LETTER LETTER XXV. The pernicious Effects of the Neglect of Marriage, in a moral and political View. 138 146 LETTER XXVI. A comparative View of the Marriages of thefe Cities, and in Tuscany and Paris. LETTER XXVII. Obfervations on the Deficiency of Marriage in the Bills of Mortality. 155 LETTER XXVIII. Marriage, Encrease, Support, Comfort, Happiness, Reputation, and found Philofophy, infeparably united. 167 161 LETTER XXIX. The Waste of Gold and Silver, through the Inadvertency or Ignorance of Individuals, next to the Waste of Men. LETTER XXX. Intereft of Money paid to Strangers, and the Confumption of Tea, fome of the Causes of the Beggary and Diftrefs of the People. LETTER XXXI. The Abuse of Malt Liquors, Wine, and Spirituous Liquors, extremely injurious, and productive of Penury among the common People. 174 185 LETTER XXXII. The vaft Confumption of Meat, independent of Seafons or War, one great Caufe of the Dearness of it. 191 195 LETTER XXXIII. Dearness of Provisions partly created by additional Numbers of Horfes kept for Pleasure. LETTER XXXIV. A candid and judicious Reprefentation made to the Representatives of the County of Gloucester, in relation to the Dearness of Provifions, with fome Remarks. 199 LETTER XXXV. Industry and Benevolence the two great Props of the Government and Happiness of a People. 211 LETTER |