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 of Men, and were often laid in Wait for, and butchered in cold Blood by the young Men of.

These were the public and essential Institutions of the Spartan Republic: Many of them strange in their Nature: Yet formed for long Duration, through the Means and Principles on which they were established: Which we shall find to be consistent with, and corroborative of the Principles of civil Liberty above laid down.

The first and best Security of civil Liberty, hath been shewn to consist "in impressing the infant Mind with such Habits of Thought and Action, as may correspond with and promote the Appointments of public Law."—This Security was laid by, in the