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<' every wile nation. He provided his colonifts at the fame time 

 « with all forts of inftruments proper for the labor and improve- 

 *' ment of their grounds. 



« In forming a laboring, and commercial people, he thought 

 <« that no laws ought to be framed, but thofe which nature has 

 " eftabliflied for the human race in every chmate ; he made 

 " thefe laws refpe6ted by obeying them firft himfelf, and exhi- 

 « biting an example of fimplicity, induftry, frugality, humanity, 

 " and good faith : he formed, then, no fyftem of laws — he did 

 " more — he eftabliflied morals. 



" His territories foon became the country of every induftri- 

 « ous man who wiflied to fettle there ; his port was open to all 

 " nations. The woods were cleared, the grounds judicioufly 

 <* labored, and fown with rice ; canals cut from the rivers wa- 

 «' tered their fields ; and plentiful harvefts, after fupplying them 

 " with fubfiftence, furnifhed an objedl of extenfive commerce. 

 *' His integrity, his moderation, and his humanity, made him re- 

 << fpeded. He never wiflied to reign, but only to eftablifli the 

 *' empire of reafon ; his fon, who now fills his place, inherits 

 *« his virtues as well as his pofleffions ; by agricidture, and the 

 *' commerce he carries on with the produce of his lands, he has 

 ** become fo powerful, that the barbarians, his neighbors, ftile 

 *' him king, a title which he defpifes ; he pretends to no right of 

 <* fovereignty, but the nobleft of all, that of doing good ; happy 

 " in being the firft laborer and the firft merchant of his country, 

 " he merits, as well as his father, a title more glorious than that 

 ** of king — the friend of mankind. 



" The barbarians of the neighborhood, amazed to fee abun- 



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