With the excellent quality of Poet you join innumerable others more or less related to it.

Never did Poet before put Metaphysics into rhythmic cadence: to you the honor was reserved of doing it first.
"This taste for Philosophy manifested in your writings, induces me to send you a translated Copy of the _Accusation and defence of M.Wolf,_ the most celebrated Philosopher of our days; who, for having carried light into the darkest places of Metaphysics, is cruelly accused of irreligion and atheism.

Such is the destiny of great men; their superior genius exposes them to the poisoned arrows of calumny and envy.

I am about getting a Translation made of the _Treatise on God, the Soul, and the World,"_--Translation done by an Excellency Suhm, as has been hinted,--"from the pen of the same Author.

I will send it you when it is finished; and I am sure that the force of evidence in all his propositions, and their close geometrical sequence, will strike you.
"The kindness and assistance you afford to all who devote themselves to the Arts and Sciences, makes me hope that you will not exclude me from the number of those whom you find worthy of your instructions:--it is so I would call your intercourse by Correspondence of Letters; which cannot be other than profitable to every thinking being....
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