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virion of property ufelefs. Each amica- 

 bly participates the ample bleffings of 

 an extenfive country, without rivalling 

 his neighbour, or interrupting his hap- 

 pincfs. This renders all government 

 and all laws unneceffary, as in fuch a 

 ftate there can be no temptations to dif- 

 honefty, fraud, injuftice, or violence, 

 nor indeed any defires which may not 

 be gratified with innocence ; and that 

 chimerical pronenefs to vice, which, 

 among civilized nations, is thought to 

 be a natural propenfity, has no exiftence 

 in a State of Nature like this, where 

 every one perfectly enjoys the bleffings 

 of his native freedom and indepen- 

 dency, without any reftraints or fears, 

 but thofe of religion, which their Peii's 

 have artfully created : To thefe, how- 

 ever, the inhabitants of all countries 

 are, in a greater or lefe degree, fub- 

 jecled. 



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