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from each other, like thofe of animals. The bees 

 of France are not in the leaft affeded by the de- 

 ftruction of the hives in America. But the tears 

 of Mankind, ihed in the New World, caufe 

 flreams of blood to flow in the ancient Continent ; 

 and the war-whoop of a favage, on the bank of a 

 lake, has oftener than once re-echoed through Eu- 

 rope, and difturbed the repofe of her Potentates. 

 The Religion which condemns love of ourfelves, 

 and which enjoins the love of Mankind, is not 

 felf.conrradiâior}^ as certain fophifts have alleged; 

 fhe exafts the facrifice of our paiTions only to di- 

 rect them toward th^ general felicity; and by in- 

 culcating upon us the obligation of loving all men, 

 Ihe furnilhes us with the only real means of loving 

 ourfelves. 



I could wifn, therefore, that our political rela-- 

 tions with all the Nations of the World, might be 

 direfted toward a gracious reception of their fub- 

 jeds in the Capital of the kingdom. Were we to 

 expend only a part of what we lay out on foreign 

 communications, we fliould be no great lofers. 

 The Nations of Afia fend no Confuls, nor Mini- 

 flers, nor Ambaffadors, out of the Country, unlefs 

 in very extraordinary cafes : and all the Nations 

 of the Earth feek to them. It is not by fending 

 Ambaffadors, in great flate, and at a vaft expenfe, 

 to neighbouring Nations, that we conciliate, or fe- 



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