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Show [56] [ 57 ] "So much as to the Reafon of the Thing : Let 'us now confider the Fact, and be determined by fitions would require more numerous Defences, Experience. Princes expect to get by fuccefs~ ful Wars, and a Series of Conquel'ts, either more Territory, or more Subjects, or a more ample Revenue; or perhaps, which is generally the Cafe, they expect to obtain all three. Now, in regard to Territory, if mere Superficies were the Thing to be aimed at, it muff be allowed, Traci: of Country are, in fac‘t, much weaker that a Country of a Million of louare Miles is more in uantity than one of half that EX- tent. But if Countries are not to be valued by Acres, but by the Cultivation and the Produce UIHIHIII of thofe Acres, then it follows, that ten Acres may be better than a thoufand, or perhaps ten thoufand; and Bifliop Berkley's Qiery may come in here very apropos,-" May not a " Man be the Proprietor of twenty Miles fquare "in Nort/z-flmerz'm, and yet be in Want of a " Dinner P" As to Numbers of Subjects, furely War and Conquefi are not the mofl likely Means for attaining this End ; and a Scheme, which confifts in the Defiruétion of the Human Species, is a very ftrange one indeed to be pro- pofed for their Increafe and Multiplication: Nay, granting that Numbers of Subjects might be acquired, together with the Accefiion of Territory, {till thefe new Subjects would add no real Strength to the State; becaufe new Acqui- fitions and becaufe a People fcattered over an immenie than half their Numbers ar‘fting in Concert together, and able by their Vicinity to luccour one another. MOREOVER, as to the Afi‘ait of the Revenue, and the Produce of Taxes, the fame Arguments conclude equally Ptrong in this Cafe as in the former: And the indifputable fact is, that an ill-peopled Country, though large and extenfive, neither produces to great a Revenue as a {mail one well cultivated and popul us 5 nor if it did, would the neat Produce of fuch a Revenue be equal to that ofthe other, becauie it is, in a iManner, fwallowed up in Governments, Guards, and Garrifons, in Saiaries and Fenlions, and all the confirming Perquilites and Expenc ‘s attendant on difiant Provinces. IN reference to the Views of the People : As far as filch Views coincide with thoie of the Prince, f0 far they have been coni‘idered already : But feeing that the Thirt‘t of inordinate Riches in private Subjects, which puihes them on to wilh f0 vehemently mum, has iomething in it difiinc‘l; from the Avarice of Princes ;, let us now examine, whether this Trade of War is a likely Method to make a People rich, and let us confidet every Plea that can be offered. " Surely, fay thefe Men, to return Homeiuden H j" with |