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From the vat Inequality of Conditions and Fortunes, from the great Variety of Paions and of Talents, of ueles Arts, of pernicious Arts, of frivolous Sciences, would iue Clouds of Prejudices equally contrary to Reaon, to Happines, to Virtue. We hould ee the Chiefs foment every thing that tends to weaken Men formed into Societies by dividing them; every thing that, while it gives Society an Air of apparent Harmony, ows in it the Seeds of real Diviion; every thing that can inpire the different Orders with mutual Ditrut and Hatred by an Oppoition of their Rights and Interets, and of coure trengthen that Power which contains them all.