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I would make them remark the difpofition of 

 this Globe, fufpended, in a moft incomprehenlVble 

 manner, upon nothing, with an infinite number 

 of different Nations in motion over it's folid, and 

 over it's liquid furface. I would point out to them, 

 in each climate, the principal plants which are ufe- 

 ful to human life; the animals which ftand re- 

 lated to thofe plants, and to their foil, without ex- 

 tending farther. I would then fhew them the hu- 

 man race, who alone, of all fenfible beings, are 

 univerfally difperfed, mutually to affift each other, 

 and to gather, at once, all the produdions of Na- 

 ture. I would let them fee, that the interefts of 

 Princes are not different from thofe of other men ; 

 and that thofe of every Nation are the fame with 

 the interefts of their Princes. I would fpeak of 

 the different Laws by which the Nations are go- 

 verned ; I would lead them to an acquaintance 

 with thofe of their own Country, of which moft of 

 our citizens are entirely ignorant. I would give 

 them an idea of the principal religions which divide 

 the Earth; and I vi^ould demonftrate to them, how 

 highly preferable Chriftianity is to all the political 

 Laws, and to all the religions of the World, be- 

 caufe it alone aims at the felicity of the whole hu- 

 man race. I would make them fenfible, that it is 

 the Chriftian Religion which prevents the different 

 ranks of Society from dafliing themfelves to pieces 

 by mutual collifion, and which gives them equal 



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