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Brissot London Lyceum Plan.
Translation by J. B. from the French original

The London Lyceum
or
An Assembly and a Correspondence
established in at London

For the purpose of affecting a personal and epistolary
instruction amongst [men of letters] the litterati of all
nations; together with a periodical delineation of
the actual state of science and the arts and sciences
in England; under the direction of
J.P. Brissot de Warville.

It was in the Lyceum at Athens that Aristotle
formed that Peripatetic School, the principles
of which commanded the admiration
of the universe for a long succession of ages.

In The new Lyceum we have presence to announce
it is nothing of aims however at nothing less than founding a new sect however is farther
from our thoughts than to attempt founding a<lb/ new sect. what (This spirit of party congenial to all sects
nourishes breeds dissention among the thinking part of
mankind) Sects breeds dissention among the
thinking part of mankind, our view object is to promote
union, by opening a center of communication,
where from every quarter of the globe
they may meet together, become acquainted,
and set on foot an interchange of ideas.

An establishment of this sort at London
was is still to wanting. At the same time there is
not a any place upon earth that stands more in need
of such an institution, or effects mans consciousness where it could be formed
for with

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