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 for during the Interval between the Etablihment of the Right of Property or prior Occupation, and that of political Government, the Meaning of thee Terms is better expreed by the Words Poor and Rich, as before the Etablihment of Laws Men in reality had no other Means of reducing their Equals, but by invading the Property of thee Equals, or by parting with ome of their own Property to them. 3dly, Becaue the Poor having nothing but their Liberty to loe, it would have been the height of Madnes in them to give up willingly the only Bleing they had left without obtaining ome Conideration for it: whereas the Rich being enible, if I may ay o, in every Part of their Poeions, it was much eaier to do them Michief, and therefore more incumbent upon them to guard againt it; and becaue, in fine, it is but reaonable to uppoe, that a thing has been invented