ON DRAFT CATTLE. 3I9 



Is it not fo? But how, with your limited 

 powers, will you ever be able to trim the 

 balance ? rafli medlers ! gratis anhelantes, how 

 dare you thus prefume to invade the high pre- 

 rogative of omnipotent chance ? 



How men, with the flighted pretentions, to 

 either theory or experience, upon the fubje&s 

 of human liberty, political ceconomy, or com- 

 merce, could entertain the idea of propofing, 

 or even debating for a moment, upon fuch a 

 fcheme as an arbitrary divifion of farms, is to 

 me not a little wonderful ; and why, flnce they 

 omitted (unlefs from forgetfulnefs) thofe necef- 

 fary concomitants in the diagram, an equal 

 participation of property, and a community 

 of wives. But thefe laft bleffings rauft be de- 

 ferred, till the expecled advent — when the 

 lion and the lamb mail chum fo lovingly to- 

 gether. 



Have thefe advocates for coercive reforma- 

 tion, never read, heard, or experienced, that 

 to check or limit acquifition, is not to promote 

 improvement? Philofophers are they, and yet 

 to be informed, that the energies of nature 

 are not to be controuled? and for the belt of 

 all poflible reafons, becaufe they cannot: 

 Republicans? and yet ftill to be taught thofe 

 things which are neither within the province, 

 or the power of the civil government. For 

 my own part, I have no hefitation in declaring, 

 that I wifli nothing but univerfal contempt, 



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