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and wounded. Such foundations are abfolutely neceflary, for the relief 

 of the poor ; and they are produftive of much improvement, in furgica! 

 fkill, and medical fcicnce.* 



* When the nation is poor, (fays Montefquieu) private poverty fprings from the gene- 

 ral calamity, and is, if I may fo exprefs myfelf, the general calamity itfelf, All the 

 liofpitals in the world, cannot cure this private poverty. On the contrary, the fpirit of 

 indolence, which it infpires encreafes the general, and confequently the private mifery. — = 

 Henry the Vlllth, demolifhed monafteries, and hofpitals, where the lower fort of people 

 found fubfiftence. Since thefe changes, the fpirit of trade and induflry have been t&th- 

 lilhed in England. 



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