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neceflaries of life, whatever they may be ; the laft neg- 

 lefts this important duty. This laft, however, feels he 

 muft be fed, and lodged, and clothed ; nor does he find 

 any method of obtaining thefe fo eafy as offering cer- 

 tain fervices to the firft. He becomes a humble de- 

 pendent, or retainer; by whatever name you pleafe to 

 denote it ; — an inferior perfonage to the firft. He is 

 in Ihort of an inferior rank to the man who fupports 

 him. To this man he. looks up as to one of a fuperior 

 nature ; he feels himfelf obliged to ' refpeft the chil- 

 dren and other connections of the fuperior ; and the 

 children and dependents of the inferior perfon feeling, 

 at an early period of life, their wants and dependence, 

 when compared with the other, cannot fail to do the 

 fame. It is in this way that a difference of rank muft 

 in all human focicties be inftantly perceived ; nor is it 

 in the power of any human device ever to prevent it. 

 If liberty be gi\'en for the human faculties to be fully 

 exerted this cannot be avoided. 



Now, if certain individuals muft ever poflefs a great- 

 er refpeclability than others in every fociety, it will 

 follow that thefe individuals v/ill have more influence 

 in that community than others, and they will become 

 leading men in all public deliberations, or in other 

 words, men of high rank. Their opinion will have in- 

 fluence in the national affemblies ; and wherever an 

 enterprife of great difficulty is to be atchieved, or a 

 public truft of great importance is to be difcharged, 

 thefe popular pcrfons will be entruftcd v/ith the charge 

 of executing it. They will, in iliort, become the fu- 

 preme executive officers of the ftate ; — in other words, 

 the King. 



In the infancy of focicties, it is true, public acts of 

 executive aclminiP.ration will be fo feldom required, 

 that neither will the national affemblies be frequent, 

 nor will the want of a fupremc executive officer be i^cit 

 but upon uncommon emergencies occurring. On 

 thefe extraordinary emcrgencifts alone therefore will a 

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