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upon the whole World ; nor the evangelical affb- 

 ciation of William Penn, in North-America, which 

 goes not even fo far as to aâ; upon the defenfive, 

 againft their enemies ; nor the conventual redemp- 

 tions (4) of the Jefuits in Paraguay ; nor the vo- 

 luptuous inlanders of the South-Sea, who, in the 

 very lap of fenfuality, offer up human facrifices(5), 

 appeared to me the proper reprefentatives of a' 

 People making a right ufe, in the ftate of Nature, 

 of all their faculties, phyfical and moral. 



Befides, though thefe fraternities prefented to 

 me certain republican images, the firft was a ftate 

 of downright anarchy; the fécond, fimply an af- 

 fociation, under the protedion of the State in 

 which it was contained; and the other two formed 

 hereditary ariftocracies merely, under which a par- 

 ticular clafs of citizens, having referved all power 

 to itfelf, even to the difpofal of the national fub- 

 fiftence, kept the People at large in a ftate of per- 

 petual tutelage, without the poffibility of their 

 ever emerging from the clafs of Neophytes, or of 

 Toutous (6). 



My foul, finding no complacency in ages pre- 

 fent, \yinged it's way toward the ages of Antiquity, 

 and alighted, firft of all, among the Nations of 



Arcadia. 



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