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192 he is neglected among other women, becaue her huband is not in the magitracv, nor attentive to the making of money; that he is unmanly and remis, and uch other things as wives are apt to cant over concerning uch hubands. The dometics too privately ay the ame things to the ons, timulating them to be more of men than their father, and more attentive to their money. When they go abroad they hear the ame things, and ee that thoe who mind their own affairs are called imple, and uch as mind not their affairs are commended. The young man comparing the conduct, peeches, and puruits of his father with thoe of other men, the one watering the rational part of his oul, and the others the concupicible and iracible, he delivers up the government within himelf to a middle power, that which is iracible and fond of contention, and o he becomes a haughty and ambitious man.—We have now the econd republic, and the econd man.

This econd republic will be ucceeded by oligarchy, founded on men's valuations, in which the rich bear rule, and the poor have no hare in the government. The change from the ambitious republic to oligarchy is made by that treaury which every one has filled with gold: for firt of all they and their wives find out methods of expence, and to this purpoe train and diobey the laws, one oberving and rivalling another, the generality become of this kind; and proceeding to greater deires of making money, the more honourable they account this to be, the more will virtue be thought dihonourable. Virtue is o different from wealth, that they always weigh againt each other. Whilt wealth and the wealthy are held in honour in the city, both virtue and the good mull be more dihonoured, and what is honoured