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 Benefit of a few ambitious Individuals ubjected the ret of Mankind to perpetual Labour, Servitude, and Miery. We may eaily conceive how the Etablihment of a ingle Society rendered that of all the ret abolutely neceary, and how, to make head againt united Forces, it became neceary for the ret of Mankind to unite in their turn. Societies once formed in this Manner, oon multiplied or pread to uch a Degree, as to cover the Face of the Earth; and not to leave a Corner in the whole Univere, where a Man could throw off the Yoke, and withdraw his Head from under the often ill-conducted Sword which he aw perpetually hanging over it. The Civil Law being thus become the common Rule of Citizens, the Law of Nature no longer obtained but among the different Societies, in which, under the Name of the Law of Nations, it was qualified by ome tacit Conventions