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 Zeal that animates me, more than the Title that hould authorize me, to approach you for this Purpoe. Having had the Happines of drawing my firt Breath among you, how was it poible I hould meditate on the Equality Nature has etablihed among Men, and on the Inequality they themelves have introduced, without thinking on the profound Widom, with which both one and the other, happily combined together in this State, have been made to concur, in a Manner that deviates leat from the Laws of Nature and yet anwers bet the Ends of Society, to the Maintenance of public Order and the Security of private