The New York Packet

"To render men happy and good," says Mr. Turgot, "there indisputably needs a public spirit, upborne by public spectacles, by shows, by instructive ceremonies; without the assistance of some passion pervading every class of society, there can be no patriotism, and that which attaches us to the republic cannot exist without the exhibition of sensible and striking objects. Lovers of the same country must necessarily love one another; it is in these meetings that the heart expands itself to love, to friendship, to benevolence, forgiveness of injuries; and that insensibly we learn to reunite under the same comprehensive idea, inhabitants of the country and the country itself.-

O thou sublime magic of the ancient legislators! where art thou? are those simple, though powerful charms never to be put again into action? Our modern philosophy has raised us so far above those original principles, that, in the pretended study of man, we have lost the sublime art of leading him to happiness and patriotism."