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ECT.XVllI. 2. 15. 



LEAVES AND WOOD. 



5^7 



human fociety, when war and its preparations employ the ingenuity 

 and labour of almoft all nations ; and mankind deftroy or enflave 

 each other with as little mercy, as they deftroy and enflave the be- 

 ftial world ; and may in time, for what appears to the contrary, re- 

 turn to their favage ftate, and begin to eat each other again, as 

 feems to have occurred gt or before the commencement of almoft all 

 civil focietiesj the firft political attention fliould certainly in this pe- 

 riod of human infatuation be employed to ftrengthen the country, 



; it to repel the invafion of foreign enemies, and to defend 



abl 



its natural rights, when they are infringed 



th 



but not to 



ck or 



de other nations for any predatory or ambitious pu 



pofe. The next important thing ftiould be fo 



th 



3=> 



example of juftice and humanity to all contend 



nation to fet a 

 nsf nations, and 



thence again to introduce truth and virtue into the world with peace 

 and happinefs in their train. 



Now as the power to 



^hts, when infringed 



1 the number of men than on the number of 



fift invafi 



forei 



o 



enemies 



d to defend our natural 

 muft depend more 



trees ; there need be 

 no hefitation in determining, that thofe lands, which can be employ- 

 ed in the prefent produdlion of vegetable or animal food, fhould not 

 be occupied in the tedious cultivation of future timber. 



But that, as the fummits of this country confift principally of a 

 ridge of mountains extending from fouth to north between the eaft- 

 ern and weftern feas, as thofe of the Peak of Derbyfliire and the 

 Moorlands of Stafford ftiire, which are fo bleak or fo barren as to be 

 totally unfit for the plough or for pafturage, and yet might be em- 

 ployed for railing variety of timbers j which from our great fucceffes 

 in naval engagements may be termed with 



N. 



great propriety 



^ , when 

 employed in building fhips, the wooden walls of this ifland : Alt 



thofe unfertile mountains from the extremity of Cornwall to the ex- 



tremity of Scotland, fhould be covered with extenfive forefts of 



fuch 



