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 it is our interet to preerve it, has never been denied; but urely it will mot effectually be preferred, by being kept always in our own power. Conceions may promote it for a moment, but uperiority only can enure its continuance. There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community that have no care but for themelves, and whoe care for themelves reaches little farther than impatience of immediate pain, and eagernes for the nearet good. The blind are aid to feel with peculiar nicety. They who look but little into futurity, have perhaps the quicket enation of the preent. A merchant’s deire is not of glory, but of gain; not of publick wealth, but of private emolument; he is therefore rarely to be conulted about war and peace, or any deigns of wide extent and ditant conequence.