Page:A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (IA discourseuponori00rous).pdf/272

 Commerce, in which every Man finds his Account in the Misfortunes of his Neighbour? There is not, perhaps, a ingle Man in eay Circumtances, whoe Death his greedy Heirs, nay and too often his own Children, do not ecretly wih for; not a Ship at Sea, the Los of which would not be an agreeable Piece of News for ome Merchant or another; not a Houe, which a Debtor would not be glad to ee reduced to Ahes with all the Papers in it; not a Nation, which does not rejoice at the Misfortunes of its Neighbours. It is thus we find our Advantage in the Diaters of our Fellows, and that the Los of one Man almot always contitutes the Properity of another. But, what is till more dangerous, public Calamities are ever the Objects of the Hopes and Expectations of a Multitude of private Perons. Some are for Sicknes, others for Mortality; thee for War, thoe for Famine. I have een Monters of Men weep for Grief at the Appearance of a plentiful Seaon; and the great and fatal Conflagration of London, which cot o many Wretches their Lives or their Fortunes, proved, perhaps, the making of more than Ten Thouand Perons. I know that Montaigne finds fault with Demades the Athenian for