Page:A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (IA discourseuponori00rous).pdf/77

 of Man, conidered in itelf, and from that of the Beings which urround him, concerning the Fate of Mankind, had they been left to themelves. This is then the Quetion I am to anwer, the Quetion I propoe to examine in the preent Dicoure. As Mankind in general have an Interet in my ubject, I hall endeavour to ue a Language uitable to all Nations; or rather, forgetting the Circumtances of Time and Place in order to think of nothing but the Men I peak to, I hall uppoe myelf in the Lyceum of Athens, repeating the Leons of my Maters before the Platos and the Xenocratees of that famous Seat of Philoophy as my Judges, and in preence of the whole Human Species as my Audience.

O Man, whatever Country you may belong to, whatever your Opinions may be, attend to my Words; you hall hear your Hitory uch as I think I have