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us to observe, we perceive man, so placed 
in the general scale, that under the 
guidance of his own genius, and proud, 
perhaps, of his brilliant . faculties, he 
does not see any of those minute. chains 
by which he issurrounded. If delivered 
over, in some degree, to himself, he some- 
times meets in his institutions, and. in his 
arts, with the laws and: proceedings 
nature has dictated to animals; it amounts 
to a certain proof of his relation with 
disposing Intelligence : the works of the 
latter, however, bear the impress of In- 
finite Wisdom; and the conceptions of 
man, the seal of imperfection. In re- 
garding those colonies, which exist at 
our very feet, and where so much har- 
mony and order prevail, I think, I per- 
ceive the Author of nature, tracing with 
his all-powerful hand, the laws of a re- 
public exempt from abuse, or framing the 
model of those compound societies, 
where servitude is allied to a common 
interest. 
The. Author of nature has so willed it, 
