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 '', but which good Princes have always defended as the tutelary Divinity of their Realms. How much more reaonable is it to ay with the Sage Plato, that the perfect Happines of a State conits in the Subjects obeying their Prince, the Prince obeying the Laws, and the Laws being equitable and always directed to the Good of the Public?'' I hall not top to conider, if, Liberty being the mot noble Faculty of Man, it is not degrading one's Nature, reducing one's elf to the level of Brutes, who are the Slaves of Intinct, and even offending the Author of one's Being, to renounce without reerve the mot precious of his Gifts, and ubmit to the commiion of all the Crimes he has forbid us, merely to gratify a mad or a cruel Mater; and if this ublime Artit ought to be more irritated at eeing his Work detroyed than at eeing it dihonoured. I hall only ask what Right thoe, who were not afraid thus