iSTlîDY XIII* 57 



STUDY THIRTEENTH. 



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APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF NATURE TO THE 

 DISORDERS OF SOCIETY. 



1HAVE ejtpofed, in this Work, the errors of 

 human opinion, and the mifchief which has 

 refulted from them, as affeding morals, and ibcial 

 felicity. I have refuted thofe opinions, and have 

 ventured to call in queftion even the methods of 

 human Science ; 1 have invefligated certain Laws 

 of Nature, and have made, I am bold to affirm, a 

 happy application of them to the vegetable or- 

 der : but all this mighty exertion would, in my 

 own opinion, prove to be vain and unprofitable, 

 unlefs I employed it in attempting to difcover 

 fome remedies for the diforders of Society. 



A Pruffian Author, who has lately favoured the 

 World with various productions, carefully avoids 

 faying a word refpeding the adminiftration of the 

 government of his own Country, becaufe, being 

 only a paflenger, as he alleges, in the veflel of the 

 State, he does not confider himfelf as warranted to 



VOL. IV. H intermeddle 



