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Happiness is the end of every human action, of every human
thought, how can it, or why ought to be otherwise? This
is for those to say, who sometimes seems to struggle to
dispute it. If they are serious, we will hear them in -
another place: at present, by way of hypothesis, let us
suppose it without dispute. it shall be an hypothesis
To Happiness, or Well-being, Being is in the 1st. place
necessary.
Husbandry then is the art of producing Happiness by
providing food necessary to the support of being against
Hunger, a constant cause of its dissolution.
Medicine is the art of producing Happiness by supporting
being against the occasional causes of dissolution,
and by supporting the body against pain.
Architecture is instrumental produces Happiness by securing men's persons
from the deleturious influences of Heat, Cold, and Moisture
that is of some of the occasional causes of dissolution:
by securing the instruments of enjoyment against dispersion
and depositions by giving its own productions a
form agreable to the eye.
Of the Miscellaneous tribe of Mechanical Arts, some —
Classes contribute to Happiness more immediately by fashioning
the productions of nature They may be called instruments of the 2nd order. into instruments of sensitive
enjoyment; others more remotely by the production of
the first
Natural History contributes to Happiness by describing
the nature distinguishing properties of the productions
of nature convertable into instruments of enjoyment
so as that they may be known when met with.
Natural Philosophy (including Chymistry) contributes
to Happiness by teaching those general properties and
capaities for artificial modification of bodies,which —
may suit them to the purposes of the mechanical arts.
Geography contributes to Happiness by pointing
out and describing the several regions, birth places of
the several articles that are converted into instruments
of enjoyment, in order to their being met with.
Navigation by teaching how to cross the seas to —
reach them.
Astronomy by its subservience to Geography and
Navigation.
Mathematics by their immediate and constant subservience
to Architecture, Natural Philosophy Geography
Navigation & Astronomy, and by their remote
or occasional subservience to almost all the rest.
2 INTROD. Encyclopædical Sketch.
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