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Rh ometlmes lay under a neceity of becoming poor, uch as are of no ungenerous dipoition: thee it in the city, ome of them in debt, others in contempt, hating and conpiring againt thoe who poes their ubtance, and with others very deirous of a change. But the money-catchers, till brooding over it, and drawing to themelves exorbitant uury, fill the city with drones and poor. They neglect every thing but making of money, and make no more account of virtue than the poor do. When thee governors and their ubjects meet on the road, at public hows, in military marches, as fellow oldiers or ailors, or in common dangers, the poor are by no means contemned by the rich. A robut fellow, poor and unburnt, beide a rich man, bred up in the hade, woln with fleh, and panting for breath, and in agony in battle, thinks it is through his own and his fellows fault that uch men grow rich, and ays, Our rich men are good for nothing. The city oon grows into edition between the oligarchic and democratic parties; and the poor prevailing over the rich, kill ome and banih others, and hare the places in the republic, and the magitracies, equally among the remainder, and for the mot part the magitracies are dipoed in it by lot. In what manner do thee live, and what ort of republic is this? A democracy. The city is full of all freedom of action and peech, and liberty to do in it what any one inclines: every one will regulate his own method of life in whatever way he pleaes. In uch a republic will arie men of all kinds. This is the finet of all republics, variegated like a robe with all kinds of flowers, and diveriied with all forts of manners. The multitude, it is likely, judge this republic the bet, like children and women gazing at