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not till then, luxury advances with 

 all its attendant pleafures and refine- 

 ments, which, without communicating 

 an increafe of happinefs to thofe who 

 enjoy them, tempt thofe who have 

 them not to endeavour to acquire theru 

 by unjuft and violent means. Man- 

 kind are then taught to connedt the 

 idea of happinefs with thofe of drefs, 

 equipage, affluence., and all the various 

 amufements which luxury has invented; 

 thence they become the flaves of a thou- 

 fand unnatural imaginary wants, which 

 become the fource of envy, difcontent, 

 fraud, injuftice, perjury, and violence, 

 by ftimulating inordinate appetites, and 

 creating unnatural temptations to vice, 

 too powerful for the fway of reafon ; 

 and thus mankind becomes the author 

 of moral Evil. 



We, in a ftate of civilization, uni- 

 verfally complain of an inability to con- 

 form 



