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 thee four Kinds of Inequality, peronal Qualities are the Source of all the ret, Riches is that in which they ultimately terminate, becaue, being the mot immediately ueful to the Properity of Individuals, and the mot eay to communicate, they are made ue of to purchae every other Ditinction. By this Obervation we are enabled to judge with tolerable Exactnes, how much any People has deviated from its primitive Intitution, and what Steps it has till to make to the extreme Term of Corruption. I could hew how much this univeral Deire of Reputation, of Honours, of Preference, with which we are all devoured, exercies and compares our Talents and our Forces; how much it excites and multiplies our Paions; and, by creating an univeral Competition, Rivalhip, or rather Enmity among Men, how many Diappointments, Succees, and Catatrophes of every Kind