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Show 56 POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL of Rules and Regulations may be formed for. the diftributing Property, the lecuring and diffufing Indufiry, the preventing the prefent {hocking Vices of Eleétioneering, and in general, for the correcting mol't, if not all of thofe Evils, which great Riches, Excels of Liberty, and Length of Fime, are too apt to introduce. I fay fuch a Set of Rules and Regulations may be formed; againfi the Admifiibn of which into our dec of Laws, there cannot be the leal‘t The CASE 9‘ going to War. Pretence of a Plzyflca/ Impofibz'lz‘ty. In one Word, the Confiitution of the Body Natural B E I N G is f0 framed, that after a~certain length of Time, no Remedy in Nature can refiore it to its priftine Health and Viaou-r; for at l-aft old Ace The FRAGMENT of a greater Work; ‘ will necefi'arily demo; it, ifnothing elfe ihall pin 2"- 4221:... ,A- a Period to it fOoner :--~But the Difeafes of the Body Politic are not (MfoZuteZy incumé/e; becaufe Care and caution, and proper Remedies, judi- C H A P. III. c‘ioufly and honeftly applied, will produce thofe Prevention of War:- " Effects in one Cafe, which it would be impofiibltt for them to produce in the other.» n ‘ ‘ n" ., , I D the Difficulty in this Argument i. confift in the Dubioufnefs of the Fat}, ‘i 5 ‘ Whether Wars were defiruétive to " ‘ Mankind, or not,' that Difliculty would not long fubfil't; for, if ocular Demonfiration can be allowed to be Proof, it is but too manifef'r, That both the conquering, and conquered Countries, are prodigious Lofers by them. But, alas! in this Cafe the Difficulty lies not in the Obfcurity of the Proof, but 1Liln ' ' t e |