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 Point with the greater Security it often puts on the Face of Benevolence. In a word, ometimes nothing was to be een but a Contention of Endeavours on the one hand, and an Oppoition of Interets on the other, while a ecret Deire of thriving at the Expence of others contantly prevailed. Such were the firt Effects of Property, and the ineparable Attendants of Infant Inequality.

Riches, before the Invention of Signs to repreent them, could carce conit in any thing but Lands and Cattle, the only real Goods which Men can poes. But when Etates increaed o much in number and in extent as to take in whole Countries and touch each other, it became impoible for one Man to aggrandize himelf but at the Expence of ome other; and the upernumerary Inhabitants, who were too weak or too indolent to make uch Acquiitions in their turn,