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For my own parr, I fliould like to fee the moft 

 perfed harmony prevailing among our merchants, 

 and the moft complete contrafts among their wares. 

 By removing the rivalities which arife out of com- 

 merce in the fame fort of goods, thofe jealoufies, 

 which are produdive of fo many quarrels, would 

 be prevented. It would give me pleafure to be- 

 hold Abundance there, pouring out the treafure 

 of all her horns, pell-mell; pheafants, frefh-cod, 

 heath cocks, turbots, pot-herbs, piles of oyfters, 

 oranges, wild-ducks, flowers, and fo on. Pcrmif- 

 fion Ihould be granted to expofe to fale there, every 

 fpecies of goods whatever; and this privilege alone 

 would be fufficient to deilroy various fpecies of 

 monopoly. 



I would ereâ: in the city but few temples ; thefe 

 few, however, fliould be auguft, immenfe, with 

 ga-lleries on the outfide and within, and capable 

 of containing, on feftival days, the third part of 

 the population of Paris. The more that temples 

 arc multiplied in a State, the more is Religion en- 

 feebled. This has the appearance of a paradox; 

 but look at Greece and Italy, covered with church- 

 towers, while Conftantinople is crowded with 

 Greek and Italian renegadoes. Independently of 

 the political, and even religious, caufes, which 

 produce thelc national depravations, there is one 



0^4 which 



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