Wall, nor would it be ami&longs;s to add a Tower, <lb/>
which is not at all incon&longs;i&longs;tent with a religious <lb/>
Edifice. </s> <s>The Mona&longs;tery for tho&longs;e Reclu&longs;e <lb/>
who to Religion join the Study of the liberal <lb/>
Arts, that they may be the more ready to pro<lb/>
mote the Good of Mankind, according to the <lb/>
Obligation of their Character, ought to be nei<lb/>
ther within the Noi&longs;e and Hurry of Trade&longs;<lb/>
men, nor too far remote from the Acce&longs;s of the <lb/>
Citizens. </s> <s>And as they are a great many in <lb/>
Family, and there is generally a great Con<lb/>
cour&longs;e of People to hear them Preach and Di&longs;<lb/>
pute concerning &longs;acred Things; they require a <lb/>
very large Hou&longs;e. </s> <s>They can be placed no where <lb/>
better than among &longs;ome publick Buildings, <lb/>
&longs;uch as Theatres, Circu&longs;&longs;es, or Squares, where <lb/>
the Multitude going for their Plea&longs;ure may <lb/>
more ea&longs;ily by the Exhortations, Example and <lb/>
Admonition of the Religious, be drawn from <lb/>
Vice to Virtue, and from Ignorance to Know<lb/>
ledge.</s>

 <s>CHAP. VIII.</s>

 <s><emph type="italics"/>Of Places for Exerci&longs;e, publick Schools, and Ho&longs;pitals both for Men and <lb/>
Women.<emph.end type="italics"/></s>

 <s>The Ancients, and e&longs;pecially the <emph type="italics"/>Greeks,<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
u&longs;ed in the very Middle of their Cities <lb/>
to erect tho&longs;e Edifices which they called <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Palæ&longs;træ,<emph.end type="italics"/> where tho&longs;e who applied them&longs;elves <lb/>
to Philo&longs;ophy, attended publick Di&longs;putations. <lb/>
</s> <s>They were large &longs;pacious Places full of Win<lb/>
dows, with a free Pro&longs;pect on all Sides, and <lb/>
rai&longs;ed Seats, and Porticoes running round &longs;ome <lb/>
green flowery Meadow. </s> <s>Such a Structure is <lb/>
extremely proper for the&longs;e Per&longs;ons, who may <lb/>
be reckoned a Kind of Religious; and I would <lb/>
have tho&longs;e who delight in the Study of Learn<lb/>
ing, be provided with every Thing that may <lb/>
induce them to &longs;tay with their Tutors with <lb/>
Plea&longs;ure, and without Unea&longs;ine&longs;s or Satiety. <lb/>
</s> <s>For this Rea&longs;on, I would have the Meadow, <lb/>
the Portico, and every Thing el&longs;e &longs;o laid out, <lb/>
that nothing what&longs;oever could be better con<lb/>
trived for Recreation. </s> <s>In Winter let them re<lb/>
ceive the kindly Beams of the Sun, and in Sum<lb/>
mer be &longs;hady and open to gentle refre&longs;hing <lb/>
Breezes. </s> <s>But of the Delicacies of this Kind of <lb/>
Structures we &longs;hall &longs;peak more particularly in <lb/>
another Place. </s> <s>Only if you do re&longs;olve to erect <lb/>
publick Schools, where the Learned may meet <lb/>
and conver&longs;e, place them in that Situation <lb/>
which may be mo&longs;t convenient and plea&longs;ant for <lb/>
them. </s> <s>Let there be no Noi&longs;es of working Trades, <lb/>
no noi&longs;ome ill Smells; and do not let it be a <lb/>
Place for idle People to loyter in; but let it <lb/>
have more the Air of a Solitude, &longs;uch as be<lb/>
comes Men of Gravity employed about the no<lb/>
ble&longs;t and mo&longs;t curious Enquiries: In a Word, <lb/>
it &longs;hould have more of Maje&longs;ty than Nicety. <lb/>
</s> <s>As for Ho&longs;pitals where the Prie&longs;t is to exerci&longs;e <lb/>
his Charity towards the Poor and Di&longs;tre&longs;&longs;ed, <lb/>
they are to be built with much Thought, and <lb/>
a good Deal of Variety; for one Place is pro<lb/>
per for harbouring the Di&longs;tre&longs;&longs;ed, and another <lb/>
for curing and fo&longs;tering the Sick and Infirm: <lb/>
Among the&longs;e la&longs;t too we &longs;hould take Care to <lb/>
make a good Deal of Di&longs;tinction, that while <lb/>
we are providing for a few u&longs;ele&longs;s People, we <lb/>
do not neglect more that might really be of <lb/>
Service. </s> <s>There have been &longs;ome Princes in <emph type="italics"/>Italy<emph.end type="italics"/><lb/>
that would never &longs;uffer any tattered Cripples <lb/>
to go about their Cities begging Charity from <lb/>
Door to Door; but as &longs;oon as ever they came, <lb/>
an Order was brought to them not to be &longs;een <lb/>
in that City without working at &longs;ome Trade <lb/>
above three Days: For there is hardly any &longs;o <lb/>
maimed but what may do &longs;ome Work or other; <lb/>
and even a blind Man may turn a Rope<lb/>
maker's Wheel, if he can do nothing el&longs;e. </s> <s>As <lb/>
for tho&longs;e who are entirely oppre&longs;&longs;ed and dif<lb/>
abled by &longs;ome heavier Infirmity, they were <lb/>
taken care of by Magi&longs;trates appointed on pur<lb/>
po&longs;e to provide for &longs;ick Strangers, and di&longs;tri<lb/>
buted regularly to inferior Ho&longs;pitlers, to be <lb/>
looked after. </s> <s>And by this Means the&longs;e poor <lb/>
Wretches did not wander about begging Re<lb/>
lief, perhaps in vain; and the City was not of<lb/>
fended by mi&longs;erable and filthy Objects. </s> <s>In <lb/>
<emph type="italics"/>Tu&longs;cany,<emph.end type="italics"/> always famous for Religion and Pie<lb/>
ty, there are noble Ho&longs;pitals, built at a va&longs;t <lb/>
Expence; where as well Strangers as Natives, <lb/>
are furni&longs;hed plentifully with all Manner of <lb/>
Nece&longs;&longs;aries for their Cure. </s> <s>But as the Sick are <lb/>
of various Sorts, &longs;ome afflicted with Lepro&longs;y or <lb/>
Plague, with which they might infect tho&longs;e who <lb/>
are in Health, and others, if &longs;uch an Expre&longs;<lb/>
&longs;ion may be allowed, with more whol&longs;ome