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 advancement of political knowledge may be expected to produce in time the like effects. Caueles dicontent and editious violence will grow les frequent, and les formidable, as the cience of Government is better acertained by a diligent tudy of the theory of Man.

is not indeed to be expected, that phyical and political truth hould meet with equal acceptance, or gain ground upon the world with equal facility. The notions of the naturalit find mankind in a tate of neutrality, or at wort have nothing to encounter but prejudice and vanity; prejudice without malignity, and vanity without interet. But the politician’s improvements are oppoed by every paion that can exclude conviction or uppres it; by ambition, by avarice, by hope, and by terrour, by public faction, and private animoity.