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ORIGIN 

 OF SOCI- 

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ties, and deliver them from that fcupidity, torpor, and indolence 

 with which they are now oppreffed : for when once the mind is 

 enlightened with new ideas, and new combinations, and a field 



the 



tal of their actions 



opened to fancy and imagination in 



their fongs, dances, and various other reprefentations ; the paffions, 



the great fource of adion in human life, will kindle in their breads 



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;that Promethean 'fire, which will infufe flrength and vigor into 



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all the tranfadions of the community. Thus ought we to admire 

 and adore that Providence, which, by the moft fimple means. 



always eifeds its 



ded purpofe, and 



of paternal 



and 



tendernefs, leaves the moft degenerated race of men, not altogether 

 .-deflitute of faculties, powers, and means, by which they may 

 .emerge from their forlorn condition : nay, the very pailions, which 

 by their abufe and lawlefs condition, but too often become the 

 caufes of dangerous evils in human fociety, are employed 



the 



wife Governor of 



world 



fubordinate 



fes.'^to forward the 



happinefs of mankind, and to bring them gradually to a more mild, 

 virtuous flate, and to happinefs of every kind. 



But at the fame 



timx that my moil inward thoughts are proftrate in adoration be- 

 fore the great Maker and Father of the fouls of all flefh ; my 



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heart is filled with the warmefi: wifhes that it may pleafe the alv/ife 



Providence foon to raife this brave and generous race of my fellow 



creatures fi-om their unnatural ftate, to a condition, where hu- 

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