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2.2 OF MONARCHY AND HEREDITARY SUCCESSION

Mankind being inally equals in the order of creation, the equality could only be destroyed by some subsequent circumstahe distins of rich, and poor, may in a great measure be ated for, and that without having recourse to the harsh, ill-sounding names of oppression and avarice.

Oppression is often the SEQUENCE, but seldom or he MEANS of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being ously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

But there is another and greater distin, for whio truly natural ious reason be assigned, and that is, the distin of men into KINGS and SUBJECTS. Male and female are the distins of nature, good and bad the distins of heaven; but how a raen came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

In the early ages of the world, acc to the……(内容加载失败!)

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