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 Fellow-Citizens their Slaves; to look upon them, like o many Cows or Sheep, as a Part of their Subtance; and to tile themelves the Peers of Gods, and Kings of Kings.

By puruing the Progres of Inequality in thee different Revolutions, we hall dicover that the Etablihment of Laws and of the Right of Property was the firt Term of it; the Intitution of Magitrates the econd; and the third and lat the changing of legal into arbitrary Power; o that the different States of Rich and Poor were authorized by the firt Epocha; thoe of Powerful and Weak by the econd; and by the third thoe of Mater and Slave, which formed the lat Degree of Inequality, and the Term in which all the ret at lat end, till new Revolutions entirely diolve the Government, or bring it back nearer to its legal Contitution.