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 to ome poor Nation, which has yielded to the fatal Temptation of invading them, and then grows opulent and weak in its turn, 'till it is itelf invaded and detroyed by ome other.

I wih omebody would condecend to inform us, what could have produced thoe Swarms of Barbarians, which during o many Ages overran Europe, Asia, and Africa? Was it to the Indutry of their Arts, the Widom of their Laws, the Excellence of their Police they owed o prodigious an Increae? I wih our learned Men would be o kind as to tell us, why intead of multiplying to uch a Degree, thee fierce and brutal Men, without Sene or Science, without Retraint, without Education, did not murder each other every Minute in quarrelling for the pontaneous Productions of their Fields and Woods? Let them tell us how thee Wretches could have the Aurance to look in the Face uch kilful Men as we were, with o fine a Military Dicipline, uch excellent Codes, and uch wie Laws. Why, in fine, ince Society has been perfected in the Northern Climates, and o much Pains have been