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 the Contitution; uch as the digging and preparing of Metals and Minerals, epecially Lead, Copper, Mercury, Cobalt, Arenic, Realgar; thoe other dangerous Trades, which every Day kill o many Men, for Example, Tilers, Carpenters, Maons, and Quarrymen; let us, I ay, unite all thee Objects, and then we hall dicover in the Etablihment and Perfection of Societies the Reaons of that Diminution of the Species, which o many Philoophers have taken Notice of.

Luxury, which nothing can prevent among Men ready to acrifice every thing to their own Conveniency, and willing to purchae at any Rate the Repect of others, oon puts the finihing Hand to the Evils which Society had begun; and on Pretence of giving Bread to the Poor, which it hould rather have avoided making, impoverihes all the ret, and ooner or later dipeoples the State.

Luxury is a Remedy much wore than the Dieae which it pretends to cure; or rather is in itelf the wort of all Dieaes, both in great and mall States. To maintain thoe Crowds