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CHAP. viir. 



Of Government^ and the general Principles upon tvhicb it mujl be 

 founded. — Of the importance of Go'uernment, — ivithout it there 

 could have been no arts or Jciences among men ; nor of confequence 

 any Religion. — Even Religion ivithout Government could not have 

 wade men happy. — Therefore Government a mofl important part of 

 the hiflory of man. — Menfrjl lived in herds, — then in families. — 

 Examples of men living in that vuay in antient times, and even at 

 this day. — Of the Union of families. States voere formed. — There 

 Government became neceffary. — Every State mufl confifl of the Go- 

 vernors and the Governed. — // is Nature that miift ft men to go- 

 vern or to be governed. — The Greek Philofophers have faid too 

 little of nature, and feem to have fuppofed that educaUon in the 

 matter of Government ivas every thing : — Of the difference of men 

 by nature,— Jome fit to govern^ and fome ft to be governed. — Of 

 Hefiod's divifion of men : — The firfl clafs of that divifion only fit to 

 he governors. — Thefe mufl be very feiv in every nation. — The ex- 

 cellency of the fpecies^^lan^ confined to a feiv races, like that of 

 other fpccicfes. — The tivo other claffes of men fit only to be govern- 

 ed, hut in different vaays. — No education can make men fit to govern, 

 ivho by nature are not qualified. — Hoiv it ivasfirjl difcovered that 

 77ien by nature vnere fo qualified: — It ivas by the look, the figure, 

 and the fine. — In this way men uuere dijiingtnfjed in the herds ; — 

 and fill more in the focieties formed of families, — of thefe ivere the 

 firfl founders of States and Rulers. — This proved by the example 

 of thefirfi States of Greece. — No Slates could have been confitut- 

 ed ivithout fuch men. — The defer iption of fich n.en by Ik.i.er. — 



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