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 to make the mot gallant Armies vanih almot intantaneouly from the Face of the Earth. The Number of thoe who every every Year perih at Sea by Famine, by the Scurvy, by Pirates, by Shipwrecks, would furnih Matter for another very hocking Calculation. Beides it is plain, that we are to place to the account of the Establihment of Property and of Coure to that of Society, the Aainations, Poionings, Highway Robberies, and even the Punihments inflicted on the Wretches guilty of thee Crimes; Punihments, it is true, requiite to prevent greater Evils, but which, by making the Murder of one Man prove the Death of two, double in fact the Los of the Human Species. How many are the hameful Methods to prevent the Birth of Men, and cheat Nature? Either by thoe brutal and depraved Appetites which inult her mot charming Work, Appetites which neither Savages nor mere Animals were ever acquainted with, and which in civilized Countries could only pring from a corrupt Imagination; or by thoe ecret Abortions, the worthy Fruits of Debauch and vicious Honour; or by the Expoition or