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''HERE is nothing in which the Generality of Mankind are o much mitaken as when they talk of Government. The different Effects of it are obvious to every one, but few can trace its Caues. Mot Men having indigeted Ideas of the Nature of it, attribute all public Micarriages to the Corruption of Mankind. They think the whole Mas is infected, that it is impoible to make any Reformation, and o ubmit patiently to their Country's Calamities, or ele hare in the Spoil: whereas Complaints of this Kind are as old as the World, and every Age has thought their own the wort. We have not only our own Experience, but the Example of all Times, to prove that Men in the ame Circumtances will do the''