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confiftence with the general laws of nature, prevented that fall which 

 has made man fo miferahle in his prefent ftate; ido^ Whether, in 

 confiftence with thefe general laws, man could have been more h;!p- 

 py than he is in that ftate. And, lajlly. Whether, in this prefent 

 ftate, in which he is fo miferable, he is always to continue ? 



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