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 of this Dicoure? It is to point out, in the Progres of Things, that Moment, when, Right taking place of Violence, Nature became ubject to Law; to diplay that Chain of urpriing Events, in conequence of which the trong ubmitted to erve the weak, and the People to purchae imaginary Eae, at the Expence of real Happines.

The Philoophers, who have examined the Foundations of Society, have, every one of them, perceived the Neceity of tracing it back to a tate of Nature, but not one of them has ever arrived there. Some of them have not crupled to attribute to Man in that State the Ideas of Jutice and Injutice, without troubling their Heads to prove, that he really mut have had uch Ideas, or even that uch Ideas were ueful to him: others have poken of the natural Right of every Man to keep what belongs to him, without