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 equivalent to that of Property, the Equality once broken was followed by the mot hocking Diorders. It is thus that the Uurpations of the Rich, the Pillagings of the Poor, and the unbridled Paions of all, by tifling the Cries of natural Compaion, and the as yet feeble Voice of Jutice, rendered Man avaricious, wicked and ambitious. There aroe between the Title of the Stronget, and that of the firt Occupier a perpetual Conflict, which always ended in Battery and Bloodhed. (17) Infant Society became a Scene of the mot horrible Warfare: Mankind thus debaed and haraed, and no longer able to retreat, or renounce the unhappy Acquiitions it had made; labouring, in hort merely to its Confuion by the Abue of thoe Faculties, which in themelves do it o much Honour, brought itelf to the very brink of Ruin and Detruction.