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thin any other Conquerors ijue read of in Hi/lory^ was, that their 

 motive was avarice, the mojl cruel and infatiable of all pajjions. — 

 'There can be no doubt, therefore, of the truth of what our Scrip- 

 ture tells us, That the Love of Money is the root of all evil. — // 

 makes Civilifed Men more barbarous than any Savages. — The Spa- 

 niards employed above 8o,coo Indians to work in their Mines. — 

 Theyfaid they were no better than Brutes, and that they could not 

 make Chj'ifians of them. — The avarice of the Spaniards made them 

 force the Indians to dive for Pearls — which confumed prodigious 

 numbers of them. — Difeafes which the Spaniards introduced among 

 them, fuch as the fmall-pox, alfo dcfroytd great numbers of them. 

 — All thefe things conftdered. Las Cafas has not fo much exceeded 

 the truth as Charlevoix has falleji fhort of it. — Reafons vohy the 

 Author has inffled fo much upon this deflation of the Earth by the 

 Spaniards. — Other examples of War produced by Money. — All Wars 

 ftnce the Peace of Utrecht, in which Britain was engaged, derived 

 from that four ce. — The American War in particular; — which was 

 more deflruElive of Men and Money than any other War on record, 

 — Computation of the lofs of Men and the expence of Money occa- 

 fioned by it. — War fhould be avoided in a Trading and Manufac- 

 turing Nation fuch as Britain. — Great praife of our Minijler, that 

 he is at pains to avoid War by preparmg for it ; — two examples 

 given of this. — The prefent War a necejfary War, being defenfive; 

 in which we have every thing at fake that is valuable. — // is the 

 common caufe of Europe, in ivhich, if u>e had not joined with other 

 Powers, our conduct would have been both difhonourable and impo^ 

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IN the preceding Book I have fpoken at great length (I hope the 

 reader does not think too great) of the difference betwixt the 

 natural and civilifed life, with refpedl to the body: I have alfo fhown 



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