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 without loing any thing, becaue while every thing about them changed they alone remained the ame, were obliged to receive or force their Subitence from the Hands of the Rich. And hence began to flow, according to the different Characters of each, Domination and Slavery, or Violence and Rapine. The Rich on their Side carce began to tate the Pleaure of commanding, when they preferred it to every other; and making ue of their old Slaves to acquire new ones, they no longer thought of any thing but ubduing and enlaving their Neighbours; like thoe ravenous Wolves, who having once tated human Fleh, depie every other Food, and devour nothing but Men for the future.

It is thus that the mot powerful or the mot wretched, repectively conidering their power and wretchednes as a kind of Title to the Subtance of others, even