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 to render Commerce poible, and upply the place of natural Compaion, which, loing by degrees all that Influence over Societies which it originally had over Individuals, no longer exits but in ome great Souls, who conider themelves as Citizens of the World, and forcing the imaginary Barriers that eparate People from People, after the Example of the Sovereign Being from whom we all derive our Exitence, make the whole human Race the Object of their Benevolence.

Political Bodies, thus remaining in a State of Nature among themelves, oon experienced the Inconveniencies which had obliged Individuals to quit it; and this State became much more fatal to thee great Bodies, than it had been before to the Individuals which now compoed them. Hence thoe national Wars, thoe Battles, thoe Murders, thoe