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 taken with the Inhabitants of thee Countries to intruct them in their Duty to one another, and the Art of living peaceably and agreeably together, we no longer ee them produce any thing like thoe numberles Hots, which they formerly ued to end forth. I am afraid that omebody may at lat take it into his Head to anwer me by aying, that truly all thee great Things, namely Arts, Sciences and Laws, were very wiely invented by Men, as a alutary Plague, to prevent the too great Multiplication of Mankind, left this World, given us for our Habitation, hould at length be found too little for its Inhabitants.

What then? Mut Societies be detroyed? Meum and Tuum abolihed, and Man bury himelf again in Forets among Wolves and Bears? A Conequence in the Stile of my Adveraries, which I chue to obviate rather than permit them the Shame of drawing it. O you, by whom the Voice of Heaven has not been heard, and who allow your Species no other Lot but that of finihing in Peace this hort Life; you, who can lay down in the midt of Cities your fatal Acquiitions, your turbulent Spirits,