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for carrying on Trade and Commerce certainly, 

 eafily, and fpeedily ; for obliging all to employ 

 their various Parts and feveral Capacities for the 

 common Good, and engaging every one to com- 

 municate the Benefit of his. particular Labour, 

 without any Prejudice to himfelf Covetoufnefs 

 indeed, or an inordinate Love of Money, is vi- 

 cious, and the Root of much EviJ, and ought to 

 be remedied ; but the Ufe of Money is necelfary, 

 ai^d attended with manifold Advantages. Where 

 Money has not yet taken Place, where the Ufe of 

 it hath not yet been introduc'd, Arts and Sciences 

 are not cultivated, nor any of thofe Exercifes 

 ply'd, which polite Men's Spirits, and which 

 abate the Uneafmefs of Life. Men there are bru- 

 tifli and favage, none mind any Thing but Eat- 

 ing and Drinking, and the other Adts of brutal 

 Nature ; their Thoughts afpire no higher than 

 merely to maintain their Life and Breath : Like 

 the Beafts they walk abroad ail the Day long, 

 and range about from Place to Place, only to 

 feek their Food. Whatever may be fuppos'd to 

 follow if all were ad:ed with great Generofity 

 and true Charity, yet, according to the prefenc 

 Temper of Mankind, it is abfolutely neceffary 

 that there be fome Method and Means of Com- 

 mutation, as that of Money, forrenderingall and 

 every one mutually ufeful and ferviceable. 



Now Gold and Silver by their Rarity are 

 wonderfully fitted and acconntmodared for this 

 Ufe of Permutation for all Sorts of Commodi- 

 ties, or making Money of: Whereas were they 



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