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430 Mr. Wimpey on the Impropriety of allowing 
one common object of purfuit, viz. the general 
peace and happinefs of mankind ; and if each 
individual were content with his proportion of 
good, as it arofe from the general (lock, com¬ 
merce and every thing elfe would put on a very 
different face. 
It would be loft labour to attempt to prove, 
what every one is daily an eye-witnefs to. The 
prefent fyftem of politics, not only among 
princes and ftates, but in fmall communities, 
and among individuals too, is not only to make 
the greateft advantages poffible of the wants and 
diftreffes of others, but to create, as far as is 
practicable, thofe wants and diftreffes, as the 
moft certain and direct: road to fuch advantages. 
Hence, the accurfed third of conqueft, to feed 
the ambition of princes, and the atrocious fpirit 
of monoplizing, to create fcarcity in the midftof 
plenty, todiftrefs, perhaps, ten thoufand perlons 
in order to gratify the infatiable avarice of one. 
Whoever may attend to the prefent fyftem of 
things, as actually exifting in a populous, 
induftrious, fertile country, where the eyes of 
every individual are open to private advantage, 
will foon fee the neceftity of reflrictive laws j 
to protect the weak and innocent againft the 
fraud and abufe of thofe, who make artifice and 
cunning their ftudy, to impoverifti and enflave 
the reft of mankind. This is an affair of the 
lafl: importance, which, I am afraid, is very 
far 
