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 Riches, human Etablihments appear at the firt Glance like o many Catles built upon Quick-ands; it is only by taking a nearer Survey of them, and by removing the Dut and the Sand that urround and diguie the Edifice, we can perceive the unhakeable Bais upon which it tands, and learn to repect its Foundations. Now, without applying ourelves eriouly to the Study of Man, his natural Faculties and their ucceive Developments, it is impoible we hould ever be able to make thee Ditinctions, and to eparate, in the actual Contitution of Things, the Operations of the Divine Will from the pretended Improvements of Human Art. The political and moral Reflections, to which the important Quetion I examine gives room, are therefore ueful in all Shapes; and the hypothetical Hitory of Governments is, in regard to Man, an intructive Leon in every repect. By conidering what we hould