574 NATURAL AND CIVIL 



quaintcd with the improvements which are made 

 ill the medical art in Europe, the people of the 

 Bew settlements neither know the names of the 

 diseases, or their remedies ; nor stand in any 

 need of their discoveries, or prescriptions. The 

 benevolent audior of natur® has annexed that 

 heahh to their temperance, industry, and activi- 

 ty, which is never found in drugs, medicines, 

 or any attainments of art. And while the peo- 

 ple are thus active and industrious in performing 

 their duty, the property and health of individu- 

 als, and the prosperity of the state, are all found 

 to flourish together. 



E^c^UALiTY. The nearest equality that ever 

 caa take place among men, will also be found 

 among the inhabitants of a new country. When 

 a number of men are engaged in the same em- 

 ployments and pursuits, and have all of them to 

 depend upon their own labor and industry for 

 their support, their situation, views, and man- 

 ners, will be nearly the same ; the way to sub- 

 sistence, to easCj and independence, being the 

 same to all. In this stage of society the nearest 

 equality will take place, that ever can subsist a- 

 mong men. But this equality will be nothing 

 more than an equality of rights ; and a similari- 

 ty of employment, situation, pursuit, and inter- 

 est. In a new country this similarity will be so 

 great, as to form a near resemblance of manners 

 and character ; and to prevent any very great 

 11 .equalities of privilege from taking place in so^ 

 ciety, either from rank, offices of government, 

 or any other cause. But nothing ever did, or 

 ever cnn produce an equality of power, capacity 

 and advantages, in tlxe social, or in any other 



