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 of this Kind. I hall therefore maintain with Confidence the Caue of Mankind before the Sages, who invite me to tand up in its defence; and I hall think myelf happy, if I can but behave in a manner not unworthy of my ubject and of my judges.

I conceive two Species of Inequality among Men; one which I call Natural, or Phyical Inequality, becaue it is etablihed by Nature, and conits in the difference of Age, Health, bodily Strength, and the Qualities of the Mind, or of the Soul; the other which may be termed Moral, or Political Inequality, becaue it depends on a Kind of Convention, and is etablihed, or at leat authorized by the common Conent of Mankind. This Species of Inequality conits in the different Privileges, which ome Men enjoy, to the Prejudice of others, uch as that of being richer, more