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** couraging agriculture, which is it's main fup- 

 " port. While the People thus live in the enjoy- 

 " ment of abundance, the larles and the Druids 

 " will find themfelves in the fame (late. When- 

 *' ever thefe two corps (hall have learned to be con- 

 *' tent with their condition, they will no longer 

 ** think of difturbing the repofe of others ; they 

 " will no longer have at their difpofal that crowd 

 *' of miferable wretches, half-ftarving with cold 

 *' and hunger, who, for a morfel of bread, arc 

 '* ever ready to abet the violence of the one, or 

 ** the fuperftition of the other. The refult of this 

 *' humane policy will be, that your own power, 

 ** fupported by that of a People whom your exer- 

 ** tions are rendering happy, muft completely ab- 

 *' forb that of the larles and of the Druids. In 

 *' every well regulated Monarchy, the power of 

 " the King is in the People, and that of the People 

 *' in the King. You will then reduce your nobi- 

 *' lity and the priedhood to their natural func- 

 *' tions. ^he larles will defend the Nation againft 

 ** foreign invafion, and will be no longer oppref- 

 ** fors at home : and the Druids will no longer 

 ** govern the Gauls by terror; but will comfort 

 ** them, and, by their fuperior illumination, and 

 *' compaffionate counfels, will affilT: them in bear- 

 ** ing the ills of life, as the minifters of every Re- 

 " ligion ought to do. 



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