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, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.

It were aburd to ak, what is the Caue of Natural Inequality, eeing the bare Definition of Natural Inequality anwers the Quetion: it would be more aburd till to enquire, if there might not be ome eential Connection between the two Species of Inequality, as it would be aking, in other Words, if thoe who command are necearily better Men than thoe who obey; and if Strength of Body or of Mind, Widom or Virtue are always to be found in Individuals, in the ame Proportion with Power, or Riches: a Quetion, fit perhaps to be dicued by Slaves in the hearing of their Maters, but unbecoming free and reaonable Beings in quet of Truth.

What therefore is preciely the Subject