great Revolution. With the Poet, it is Gold and Silver, but with the Philoſopher, it is Iron and Corn, which have civilized Men, and ruined Mankind. Accordingly both one and the other were unknown to the Savages of America, who for that very Reaſon have always continued Savages; nay other Nations ſeem to have continued in a State of Barbariſm, as long as they continued to exerciſe one only of theſe Arts without the other; and perhaps one of the beſt Reaſons that can be aſſigned, why Europe has been, if not earlier, at leaſt more conſtantly and better civilized than the other Quarters of the World, is that ſhe both abounds moſt in Iron and is beſt qualified to produce Corn.
It is a very difficult Matter to tell how Men came to know any thing of Iron, and the Art of employing it: for we are not to ſuppoſe that they ſhould of themſelves think of digging it out
