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tyrannical man himelf remains yet to be conidered, in what manner he aries out of the democratic, and what kind of man he is, and whether he is wretched or happy; of thoe pleaures and deires which are not neceary, ome are repugnant to law; thee indeed appear to pring up in every one, but being chatied by the laws, and the better deires, along with reaon, they either forake ome men altogether, or are les in number, and feeble; in others they are in greater number, and more powerful. Thee lawles deires are uch as are excited in leep, when the rational part of the oul which governs it is aleep, and the part which is brutal and avage, being filled with meats and drunkennes, friks about, and puhing away leep, wants to go and accomplih its practices; in uch a one it dares to do every thing, as being looed and diengaged from all modety and dicretion; for it cruples not the embraces, as it imagines, of gods, men, or beats; nor to kill any one; in one word, is wanting in no folly nor impudence. There is in every one a certain pecies of deires, which is terrible, avage, and irregular, even in ome who eem to us to be entirely moderate.

Recollect now what kind of man we aid the democratic one was; educated from his infancy under a parimonious father, who valued the avaricious deires alone; but being afterwards converant with thoe who are more refined, running into their manner, and all ort of inolence, from a detetation of his father's parimony; however, having a better natural temper than thoe who corrupt him, and being drawn oppoite ways, he ettles into a manner in the middle of both, and participating moderately, as he imagines, of each of