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bs very great, efpscially wheo it is carried on by Coloniei, and by a Military force-, 

 Vfhich we maintain in thffm. — Manufacftures alio carried on in Fa6lor.es and great 

 Towns, confume a great many Men, particularly the Cotton Manutaiflure. — In all 

 Trade to diftant Countries, there nvull be a comnierce of dileal'is as well as ot other 

 things. — in this coinm^.rce the balance is on our fide ; for excejjt from InJia we have 

 imported no dileaie?, whereas wc have exported vices and dil'eal'es to North Ame- 

 rica, by which we have delbiated Ibme part of that Continent. —Of our Home Trade. 

 — It makes every thing venal ; — iMeat, Urink, Cloathing, Houfes, Arts and .Scien- 

 ces, and even Rehj^ion. — i'hel'e bad etfed'ts to be afterwards enlarged on. — Enough 

 faid at prefent to prove that the acqullltion of Wealth, by Trade and Manufac- 

 ture is very deftruftive of Men. — Shown that Religion has been made, by Money, 

 the iiiftrument of the dellrudlion of many, by producing Perfecutions, Maila- 

 cie., and Religious Wars — which were rot known till the Chrillian Religion 

 was eltablillied by Law. — This produced benefices and princely revenue?, which 

 occafioncd lUifes atid contentions, for thefe benefices and revenues ; and at 

 laft Perfecutions and MrifTacres unknown in the Heathen World. — The roman- 

 tic expeditions to the Huly Land infpired by mirtaken zeal, a fource of great 

 deflru^tion of Men. — But, by thefe calamities, the words of our Saviour fulfill- 

 ed. — Of the difference betwixt the Confiitution of Antient Rome and of Ajodern 

 Slates, with refpedt to Salaries annexed to offices Civil and Religious. — In R^ n>e, 

 no Salary or Perquifites annexed to the higheil Offices.— Arillotle in his Polity fays, 

 that there is great danger from making offices lucrative. — The reafon jlain. — Ava- 

 rice will excite Men to contend and flrive for them — Hei.ce, F.scSlion, Sedition, and 

 fometia>es Civil War. — Of the influence of Wealth in Government j — it was the 

 ruin of the Heroic Governments of Greece, — and of every Government deftroyed 

 by internal diforders. — The Antient Qreeks lived upon the natural fruits of the 

 Earth, particularly the Malloiu-s and y^/)/^;^^.— Lycurgus's wiidom in forbidding the 

 ufe of Gold and Silver coin in Sparta, and only ptrmitting Iron valued by weight.— 

 After all, however, Wealth, as the Oracle preji(5led, rumed Sparta —Lj Rome a 

 diflinclion of Poor and Rich. — This dilbndtion the fource of the ruin of every State 

 from the time that the Poor get a fhare of the Government — Praile of the Govern- 

 ment of Antient Egypt.— It guarded againft this evil j and accordingly tafted much 

 longer than any other Government we read of, and at lall fed by external violence. 



X l-.e conqueft of Egypt by the Ptrfians, a people much nearer to the Natural State, 



and therefore poflefled of more Natural Strength — The fate of ail Civilifed Nations, 

 to be conquered by Nations nearer to the Natural State. p. 63. 



C H A P. III. 



Proved that the acquiwtion of Wealth produces great mifchief. — To be inquired, Whe* 

 tlier the enjoyment of it does not make up-fbr that mifchief. — The opiniori of Ho- 

 mer,., 



