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 We mut in the firt place allow that the more violent the Paions, the more neceary are Laws to retrain them: but beides that the Diorders and the Crimes, to which thee Paions daily give rie among us, ufficiently prove the Inufficiency of Laws for that Purpoe, we would do well to look back a little further and examine, if thee Evils did not pring up with the Laws themelves; for at this Rate, tho' the Laws were capable of repreing thee Evils, it is the leat that might be expected from them, eeing it is no more than topping the Progres of a Michief which they themelves have produced.

Let us begin by ditinguihing between what is moral and what is phyical in the Paion called Love. The phyical Part of it is that general Deire which prompts the Sexes to unite with each other; the moral Part is that which