Nor are we less provided for the serious Part; Morality has generally been the Province of our Clergy who have treated of all parts of it very largely with so much Piety, Solidity, and Eloquence, that as I think I may venture to say, they have written more upon it than the Clergy of all the rest of the World; so I believe no Body will deny that they have written better. Yet I cou’d wish, that our Ingenious Gentlemen wou’d employ their Pens oftner on these Subjects; because the severity of the other’s Profession obliges ’em to write with an Air, and in a Style less agreable, and inviting to Young People, Not that we are without many excellent Pieces of Morality, Humanity and Civil Prudence written by, and like Gentlemen. But it is the Excellence of ’em, and the ability of our Gentlemen, which appears in the Spirit, Wit, and curious Observations in those Pieces, which make me desire more of the same Nature, Who can read the Essays of that Wonderful Man my Lord _Bacon_, or the no less to be admir’d Sir _Walter Raleigh_’s, or Mr. _Osborns_ advice to a Son, the _Advice to a Daughter_, Sir _William Temple_’s, or Sir _George Machenzie_’s Essays, Sir _Roger L’Estrange_’s Esop (to which last we are likewise oblig’d for an incomparable Version of _Seneca_) and abundance of others, without wishing for more from the same or the like hands? Our Neighbours the _French_, have written a great deal of this kind, of the best of which we have the benefit in _English_; but more particularly the _Sieurs_, _Montagne_, _Rochefaucaut_, and St. _Evremont_ deserve to be immortal in all Languages. I need not mention any more, it is apparent from these that Women want not the means of being Wise and Prudent without more Tongues than one; nay, and Learned too, if they have any Ambition to be so. The numberless Treatises of Antiquities, Philosophy, Mathematicks, Natural, and other History (in which I can’t pass silently by, that learned One of Sir _Walter Raleigh_, which the World he writ of can’t match) written originally in, or translated to our Tongue are sufficient to lead us a great way into any Science our Curiousity shall prompt us to. The greatest difficulty we struggled with, was the want of a good Art of Reasoning, which we had not, that I know of, till that defect was supply’d by the greatest Master of that Art Mr. _Locke_, whose Essay on Human Understanding makes large amends for the want of all others in that kind.