August 14, 1811 This book is more learned and entertaining than the Sophiometer of John Stewart the pedestrian Traveller, which I received from him in England three days ago: but not much more solid.

Manilius in his Astronomicon, has given us quite as good an account of the future progress of Ratio reason.

The Logos Word/Divine Reason of Plato, The Ratio of Manilius, and the Mind of Condorcet all plausible and specious as they are will be three thousand years longer, more delusive than useful. Not one of them takes human Nature as it is for his Foundation. Equality is one of those equivocal words which the Philosophy of the 18th Cent.

OUTLINES has made fraudulent.

OF AN

The Word as it is used is a Swindler.
In the last twenty five years it has cheated Mil-

HISTORICAL VIEW lions out of their Lives and Tens of Millions

out of their Property.

OF THE

PROGRESS OF THE HUMAN MIND.

God has established no Equality among Men in Practice or Theory but a moral Equality. The Giant has a natural Right to his Eight foot Stature, and to his Strength equal to 500 Weight as the Dwarff to his Three feet and his Strength but equal to 50 Pounds.