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198 draw towards intimacies among themelves, and generate a multitude, eize the citadel of the oul of the youth, finding it evacuated of noble learning and puruits, and of true reaoning, which are the bet watchmen and guardians in the undertandings of men beloved of the gods; and then fale and boating reaonings and opinions, ruhing up in their tead, poes the ame place in uch a one. Thee fale and boating reaonings, denominating modety to be tupidity; temperance, unmanlines; moderation, ruticity; decent expence, illiberality; thrut them all out digracefully, and expel them their territories, and lead in in triumph inolence and anarchy, and luxury and impudence, with encomiums and applaues, hining with a great retinue, and crowned with crowns. Inolence they denominate education; anarchy, liberty; luxury, magnificence; and impudence, manhood. In this manner, a youth bred up with the neceary deires changes into the licentiounes and remines of the unneceary and unprofitable pleaures; his life is not regulated by any order, but deeming it pleaant, free, and happy, he puts all laws whatever on a level; like the city, he is fine and variegated, and many men and women too would deire to imitate his life, as he hath in him a great many patterns of republics and of manners.

It remains, that we go over the mot excellent republic, which is tyranny, and the mot excellent man, who is the tyrant. The change is from democracy to tyranny, as from oligarchy to democracy. An inatiable deire of riches, and a neglect of other things, through attention to making money, detroys oligarchy; and an inatiable thirt of liberty detroys democracy. When a city is under a democracy, and is thirting after berty,