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Show 7+ SUBJECTS. POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL. 75 Eng thefe People as Objects worthy oflmitation, will look upon them, with a jull Abhorrente and Indignation -, and every wile State, con{tilting the. Good of the Whole, will take Warn- of found Politics ever bear a Separation from thofe of true and genuine Morality. Not to mention, that the Viétors themlelves will ex- perience it to their Coils fooner or later, th-t in ing by their fatal Example, and llifle, as much vanquilhing others, they are only preparing a as pollible, the very Beginnings of fuch a Roman Spirit in its Subjects. THE Cafe of the ancient Ramrm having thus bee n conllidered at la1ge,lels may be 1equihte more magnificent Tomb for their own Interment. IN fhort, the good Providence of God hath, as to what15 to follow. as it were, taken peculiar Pains to preclude And therefo1e lullice Mankind from having any plaufible Pretencc it to obferve, that the Wars of Europe for there for purl‘uing either this, or any other Scheme two hundred Years laf't pail, by the Confelnon of Depopulation. of all Parties, have really ended in the Advan- venting Endeavours, ifl may f0 lpeak, are per. tage of none, but the manifell Detriment 01' all: Suffice it farther to remark, that had each of the contending Powers employed their Sub- feélly legible both in the natural, and in the moral World. IN the natural World, our bountiful Creator ieéts in cultivating and improving l‘uch Lands as were clear of all dilputed Titles, inllead of aiming at more extended l'olTefiions, they had con- hath formed different Soils, and 1p; oined d11f- lerent Climates; whereby the Inhabitants of different Countries may fupply each other with fulted both their own and their People's Greatnefs much more efiicacioufly, than by all the their refpeftive Fruits and Products ; fr.) that by And the Traces of fuch pre_ exciting a reciprocal Indullry, they may carry Victories of a Cmfar, or an flkxafldfl. UPON the \Nhole, therefore, it is evident to on an Intercourle mutually beneiic1al, and uni~ a Demonllration, that nothing can rel-ult from NAY more, even where there is no remarka- ‘ble Dill'erence of Soil, or of Climates, find l‘uch Syftems as thefe, however lpecious and plaufible in Appearance, but Difappointnient, "730% and Bngary. For the great Laws ol‘ verlally benevolent. agreat Difference or Talents; and if l may be allowed the prrellion, a wondeiful Variety Providence, and the Courfe of Nature, are not of Strata in the human Mind. to be reverled or counter-acted by the feeblc amP‘C, the Alteration of Latitude between Efforts of wayward Man; nor will the Rules Norwich and Maize/ztfler, and the Variation of of Soil Thus, for Ex- l\|ll\|.\\\\\ |