StUDY XIII. 2.93 



with the charge of a family, pcrfons who have not 

 the means of fupplying their perfonal neceffities. 

 Some are for incarcerating all the beggars ; others 

 Would prohibit the wretched women of pleafure to 

 appear in the ftreets. They would ad in the man- 

 ner which that phyfician does, who, in order to 

 cure the pimples on the body of a perfon out of 

 order, ufes all his fkill to force back the humours. 

 Politicians, you apply the remedy to the head, be- 

 caufe the pain is in the forehead ; but the mif" 

 chief is in the nerves : it is for the heart you inuft 

 provide a cure ; it is the People, whofe health yoa 

 muft endeavour to reftore. 



Should fome great Minifter, animated with a 

 noble ambition, to procure for us internal happi- 

 nefs, and to extend our power externally, have the 

 courage to undertake a re-eftablidiment of things, 

 he muft, in his courfe of procedure, imitate that 

 of Nature. She ads, in every cafe flowly, and by 

 means of re-adions. I repeat ir, the caufe of the 

 prodigious power of gold> which has robbed the 

 People at once of their morality, and of their fub- 

 fiftence, is in the venality of public employments. 

 That of the beggary which, at this day, extends to 

 feven millions of fubjeds, confifts in the enor« 

 mous accumulation of landed and official • pro'- 

 perty. That of female proftitution, is to be 

 -imputed, on the one hand, to extreme indigence; 



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