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planted in the heart of the parent. Whereas, the fathers 

 of the nation, to whom this kind, beneficent inftindt 

 is wanting, pleafe themfelves in being feared, without 

 mitigating what is hateful in their authority, by love, 

 which begets and cherifhes love. Servile dread, found- 

 ed on the dazzling radiance of an inacceflible throne, 

 on myriads of furrounding guards, on countlefs armies, 

 and the fword of vengeance for ever drawn ; in ihort, 

 on irrefiftible force, is the only cement that holds thefe 

 monarchies together, and what gives fecurity to the 

 defpot and his fatraps. At times indeed it may happen 

 that fortune fends thefe wretches a deliverer, fome 

 Cyrus, who breaks 'their antient fetters, and governs a 

 new moulded empire with wifdom and true fatherly 

 difpolitions ; this cafe, however, but rarely occurs, 

 and the good that is thus effected, is for the moft part 

 only perfonal and tranfient ; for the original fource of 

 the evil, the form of government, Hill remains, and a 

 feries of feeble-minded or vicious fucceffors quickly 

 pulls down what the fingle beneficent regent had 

 built. 



Menipp. But if this form of government among the 

 fouth-eaflern nations of AHa had that origin which 

 thou giveft it, how comes it, that the northern AHatics 

 and the european nations have kept free of it ? If the 

 foundation of thofe defpotical monarchies lies in the 

 natural family ceconomy, which indeed may, as it mould 

 feem, be regarded as the ground- plot of all political 

 government: then delpotifrn mull have been lpread 

 over all the furface of the earth. 



r Xenoph, Were it a necelfary confequence of the 

 original family government,, then this would certainly 



have 



