‘But these parts are too often the resort of gay company, who are under no impressions of this kind—who have no ideas but of extending the sphere of their amusements, or of varying a life of dissipation. The grandeur of the country is not taken into the question, or at least it is not otherwise considered than as affording some new mode of pleasurable enjoyment. Thus, even the diversions of Newmarket are introduced—diversions, one would imagine, more foreign to the nature of this country than any other. A number of horses are carried into the middle of the lake in a flat boat: a plug is drawn from the bottom: the boat sinks, and the horses are left floating on the surface. In different directions they make to land, and the horse which arrives soonest secures the prize.’—GILPIN’S _Picturesque Observations on Cumberland and Westmoreland_, vol. ii. p. 67. Footnote 65: ‘The necessary consequence of men living in so unnatural a way with respect to houses, clothes, and diet, and continuing to live so for many generations, each generation adding to the vices, diseases, and weaknesses produced by the unnatural life of the preceding, is, that they must gradually decline in strength, health, and longevity, till at length the race dies out. To deny this would be to deny that the life allotted by nature to man is the best life for the preservation of his health and strength; for, if it be so, I think it is demonstration that the constant deviation from it, going on for many centuries, must end in the extinction of the race.’—_Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. v. p. 237. Footnote 66: ‘Rome, le siège de la gloire et de la vertu, si jamais elles en eurent un sur la terre.’—ROUSSEAU. Footnote 67: ——extrema per illos Justitia, excedens terris, vestigia fecit.—VIRG. Footnote 68: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. v. book iv. chap. 8. Footnote 69: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. v. book iv. chap. 8. Footnote 70: See _Xenophon’s Memorabilia_. Footnote 71: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. v. book iv. chap. 8. Footnote 72: si tantum culti solus possederis agri, quantum sub Tatio populus Romanus arabat.—JUV. Footnote 73: _Ancient Metaphysics_, vol. v. book iv. chap. 8. Footnote 74: ‘Pochi compagni avrai per l’altra via: Tanto ti prego più, gentile spirto, Non lasciar la magnanima tua impresa.’—PETRARCA. Footnote 75: