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 This ame Study of original Man, of his real Wants, and of the fundamental Principles of his Duties, is likewie the only good Method we can take, to urmount an infinite Number of Difficulties concerning the Origin of moral Inequality, the true Foundations of political Bodies, the reciprocal Rights of their Members, and a thouand other imilar Quetions, that are as important as they are ill undertood.

To conider human Society with a calm and diintereted Eye, it eems at firt ight to hew us nothing but the Violence of the Powerful and the Oppreion of the Weak; the Mind is hocked at the Cruelty of the one, and equally grieved at the Blindnes of the other; and as nothing is les table in human Life than thoe exterior Relations, which Chance produces oftener than Widom, and which are called Weaknes or Power, Poverty or