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 to urvey the ret, and wihes to be urveyed himelf; and public Eteem acquires a Value. He who ings or dances bet; the handomet, the tronget, the mot dexterous, the mot eloquent, comes to be the mot repected: this was the firt Step towards Inequality, and at the ame time towards Vice. From thee firt Preferences there proceeded on one ide Vanity and Contempt, on the other Envy and Shame; and the Fermentation raied by thee new Levains at length produced Combinations fatal to Happines and Innocence.

Men no ooner began to et a Value upon each other, and know what Eteem was, than each laid claim to it, and it was no longer afe for any Man to refue it to another. Hence the firt Duties of Civility and Politenes, even among Savages; and hence every voluntary Injury