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mented by, an accumulating pofterity, 

 till the difproportion in the poffeffions 

 of different individuals becomes enor- 

 mous, and creates a thoufand unna- 

 tural diftinSions among mankind, en- 

 abling fome to fquander the bread of 

 provinces in a profufion of fatiating plea- 

 fares ; while multitudes fuffer by want, 

 infulted by every fpecies of fubordinate 

 tyranny, and oppreffed by every law 

 which gives others protection ; while ob- 

 jects frill more wretched, who are ema- 

 ciated with the complicated evils of hun- 

 ger and difeafe, uncloathed even with 

 rags, difclaimed by the world, and a- 

 bandoned to the rigours of winter, pe- 

 nury, and defpair, and whofe miferies 

 rather excite horror than compaflion, 

 daily (hock humanity. Thus the excef- 

 five difproportion of wealth renders the 

 poor miferable, without augmenting the 

 happinefs of the rich. When this dis- 

 parity becomes confiderable, then, and 



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