DEDICATION.

is eager to be useful; then, he submits what he has meditated upon to public examination: he uses the same right also toward others. Behold Liberty.

Golden Liberty! How many and how great are the goods you bestow upon mortals? Yet how much more blessed is that people to whom a certain and lasting Peace grants the tranquil use of Liberty; whom both, as if competing, strive to lift to the highest peak of happiness.

Let us, upon whom this enviable condition has fallen, acknowledge with a grateful mind the immense kindness of the SUPREME ARBITER of things: let us adore HIS most free disposition: but let us venerate THOSE, WHOSE labor He wished to use to confer such great happiness upon us.