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 Happines? In examining what were the bet Maxims good Sene might precribe for the Contitution of a perfect Government, I was o truck to find them all complied with in yours, that, tho' I had not been born within your Walls, I hould have thought myelf indipenably obliged to offer this Picture of human Society to that People, which of all others, in my Opinion, enjoys the greatet Advantages of it, and has bet guarded againt its mallet Abues.

Had I been the Mater to chue a Birth-place for myelf, I hould have choen a Society of an Extent proportioned to that of the human