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 inquiring of others what we are, and never daring to quetion ourelves on o delicate a Point, in the midt of o much Philoophy Humanity and Politenes, and o many ublime Maxims, we have nothing to hew for ourelves but a deceitful and frivolous Exterior, Honour without Virtue, Reaon without Widom, and Pleaure without Happines. It is ufficient that I have proved that this is not the original Condition of Man, and that it is merely the Spirit of Society, and the Inequality which Society engenders, that thus change and transform all our natural Inclinations.

I have endeavoured to exhibit the Origin and Progres of Inequality, the Intitution and Abue of Political Societies, as far as thee things are capable of being deduced from the