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 Reprials, which make Nature hudder and hock Reaon; hence all thoe horrible Prejudices, which make it a Virtue and an Honour to hed human Blood. The worthiet Men learned to conider the cutting the Throats of their Fellows as a Duty; at length Men began to butcher each other by thouands without knowing for what; and more Murders were committed in a ingle Action, and more horrible Diorders at the taking of a ingle Town, than had been committed in the State of Nature during Ages together upon the whole Face of the Earth. Such are the firt Effects we may conceive to have arien from the Diviion of Mankind into different Societies. Let us return to their Intitution.

I know that everal Writers have aigned other Origins of Political Society; as for Intance, the Conquets of the Powerful, or the Union of the Weak;