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 But thee Details would alone furnih ufficient Matter for a more coniderable Work, in which might be weighed the Advantages and Diadvantages of every Species of Government, relatively to the Rights of Man in a State of Nature, and might likewie be unveiled all the different Faces under which Inequality has appeared to this Day, and may hereafter appear to the end of Time, according to the Nature of thee everal Governments, and the Revolutions which Time mut unavoidably occaion in them. We hould then ee the Multitude oppreed by dometic Tyrants in conequence of thoe very Precautions taken by them to guard againt foreign Maters. We hould ee Oppreion increae continually without its being ever poible for the Oppreed to know where it would top, nor what lawful Means they had left to check its Progres. We hould ee the Rights of Citizens, and