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 To conceive the Neceity of this Progres, we are not o much to conider the Motives for the Etablihment of political Bodies, as the Forms thee Bodies aume in their Adminitration; and the Inconveniencies with which they are eentially attended: for thoe Vices, which render ocial Intitutions neceary, are the ame which render the Abue of uch Intitutions unavoidable; and as (Sparta alone excepted, whoe Laws chiefly regarded the Education of Children, and where Lycurgus etablihed uch Manners and Cutoms, as in a great meaure made Laws needles,) the Laws, in general les trong than the Paions, retrain Men without changing them; it would be no hard Matter to prove that every Government, which carefully guarding againt all Alteration and Corruption hould crupulouly comply with the Ends of its Intitution, was unnecearily intituted; and that a Country, where