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more the fmallnefs of villages, and their re- 

 fpedive diftances, which never allow of fre- 

 quent and numerous a0emblies, clieck the 

 progrefs of corruption. This deflru^ilive 

 evil is found, above all, concentred in large 

 capitals, where its poifon, heightened by the 

 various interefts of a muUitude cf people 

 colleded together, difiufes itfelf abroad, and 

 infeds every order of fociety. Crimes are 

 the inevitable confcquence and vifible fign 

 of a vitiated conflitution. 



It 13 then highly necefTary to correal and 

 reform every thing that leads man afide 

 from his duty ^ to infpire him not with con- 

 tempt, but with love, for his fellow creatures ; 

 and to iliew him, that it will promote both 

 his intereft and his happinefs not to do an 

 injury to another. It is not by multiplying 

 executions that we can ever attain to fo 

 falutary an end. This barbarous and in- 

 eSedual method becomes alfo often unjufl, 

 3 when 



