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 that I think I have ufficiently reflected on the Subject of it to dare anwer beforehand, that the wiet Philoophers would not be too wie to direct uch Experiments, nor the mot powerful Sovereigns too powerful to make them; a Concurrence of Circumtances which there is hardly any Reaon to expect, or at leat that it hould be attended with that Pereverance, or rather that Succeion of Knowledge, Penetration, and Good-will requiite on both Sides to inure Succes.

Thee Reearches, o difficult to make and which hitherto have been o little thought of, are however the only Means left us to remove a thouand Difficulties, which prevent our eeing the true Foundations of Human Society. It is this Ignorance of the Nature of Man, that o much perplexes and obcures the genuine Definition of natural Right: for the Idea of Right, as Monieur