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CHAP. IIL 



Proved that the acqu'ifition of Wealth produces great mifchief, — To he 

 ijiq?nred^ Whether the enjoyment of it does not make up for that mif- 

 chief — The opi?iion of Horner^ that Man was the mof miferahle of 

 all Animals, — ^le/lion^ Whether be be lefs rniferable now^ when he 

 has fo much more money ^ than in the days of Homer P — God has af 

 Jigned for every Animal an oeconomy and manner of life ^ that gives 

 him all the happinefs his nature is capable of — Man^ therefore, in 

 his natural fate^ is as happy as other Animals in that /late, — The 

 ^i if ion then is. Whether Money has made him happier in the Ci- 

 vil fed State? — The efijoyment of Money produces as much evil as 

 the acquifttion of it, — Wealth produces Luxury and Vanity, and af 

 fords many temptations, that are not to be rtfifled by a weak 

 intelleSl^ fuch as that of Man, — Of the divifton of Men, introduced 

 by Wealth, ifito thofe who live in Vanity and Luxury, and thofe who- 

 minifer to that Vanity and Luxury. — The effect of Wealth upon the 

 Rich, is to make them more difeafed and more rniferable — and upon 

 the Poor, to make thtm fill poorer. — This paradox explained, by 

 fjowing that Wealth raifes the price of the neceffaries of life, and 

 prompts the Poor to imitate the Luxury and Vanity of the Rich. — 

 The drinking of Tea an example of this. — Of the poverty of Ma- 

 nufaBurers though their wages be high. — The Poors rate of Lng- 

 land incr cafes with the wealth of a Nation. — Wealth makes the 

 Rich poor — and confquently avaritious. — The confcquence of Luxu- 

 ry and Avarice being joined together in the great Men of a State, 

 "•—The conf piracy of Cataline^ a remarkable infance of that. — Of 

 the effects of Wealth in England — more confpicuous than in any 



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