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 of Man by the mere light of Reaon, and independently of thoe acred Maxims which give to the Sovereign Authority the Sanction of Divine Right. It follows from this Picture, that as there is carce any Inequality among Men in a State of Nature, all that which we now behold owes its force and its growth to the Development of our Faculties and the Improvement of our Undertanding, and at lat becomes permanent and lawful by the Etablihment of Property and of Laws. It likewie follows that moral Inequality, authorized by any Right that is merely poitive, clahes with natural Right, as often as it does not combine in the ame Proportion with Phyical Inequality; a Ditinction which ufficiently determines, what we are to think in that repect of that Kind of Inequality which obtains in all civilized Nations, ince it is