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 the two Sums, found that the lat greatly exceeded the firt, and that every thing conidered Life to Man was no uch valuable Preent. I am not urpried at his Concluions; he drew all his Arguments from the Contitution of Man in a civilized State. Had he looked back to Man in a State of Nature, it is obvious that the Reult of his Enquiries would have been very different; that Man would have appeared to him ubject to very few Evils but thoe of his own making, and that he would have acquitted Nature. It has cot us omething to make ourelves o mierable. When on the one hand we conider the immene Labours of Mankind, o many Sciences brought to Perfection, o many Arts invented, o many Powers employed, o many Abyes filled up, o many Mountains levelled, o many Rocks rent to Pieces, o many Rivers made navigable, o many Tracts of Land cleared, Lakes emptied, Marhes drained, enormous Buildings raied upon the Earth, and the Sea covered with Ships and Sailors; and on the other weigh with ever o little Attention the real Advantages that have reulted from all thee Works to the Human Species;