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 which my Imagination has not uggeted, every attentive Reader mut unavoidably be truck at the immene Space which eparates thee two States. 'Tis in this low Succeion of things he may meet with the Solution of an infinite Number of Problems in Morality and Politics, which Philoophers are puzzled to olve. He will perceive that, the Mankind of one Age not being the Mankind of another, the Reaon why Diogenes could not find a Man was, that he ought among his Cotemporaries the Man of an earlier Period: Cato, he will then ee, fell with Rome and with Liberty, becaue he did not uit the Age in which he lived; and the greatet of Men erved only to atonih that World, which would have chearfully obeyed him, had he come into it five hundred Years earlier. In a word, he will find himelf in a Condition to undertand how the Soul and the Paions of Men by inenible Alterations change as it were