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 lat conceived the deepet Project that ever entered the Human Mind: this was to employ in his favour the very Forces that attacked him, to make Allies of his Enemies, to inpire them with other Maxims, and make them adopt other Intitutions as favourable to his Pretenions, as the Law of Nature was unfavourable to them.

With this View, after laying before his Neighbours all the Horrors of a Situation, which armed them all one againt another, which rendered their Poeions as burthenome as their Wants were intolerable, and in which no one could expect any Safety either in Poverty or Riches, he eaily invented pecious Arguments to bring them over to his Purpoe. "Let us unite, aid he, to ecure the Weak from Oppreion, retrain the Ambitious, and ecure to every Man the Poeion of what