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Show 76 S POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL U B J E C T S. 77 if Mankind would but Open their Eyes, they Soil are not worth naming; moreover, the Ma terials made Ufe of in both Places, Woo}, Flax, and Silk, arejui't the fame; yet To diti‘erent are the Productions of their rel‘peétive Looms, that Countries, which are Thoufands of Miles apart, might plainly fee, that there is no one Argu- ment for inducing different Nations to fight for the Sake of Trade, but which would equally oblige every County, Town, Mil-age. nay, and every Shop among otirfelves, to be engaged in could hardly exhibit a greater Contraf‘t. Now, civil and inteitine Wars for the fame End : Nor, had Nor-wit}; and MllflC/Zcfl‘rfi‘ been the Capitals of two neighbouring Kingdoms, inl‘tead ofLovc on the contrary, is there any Motive or lnterePt or Advantage that can be urged for reflraining and Union, we ihould have heard of nothing but jealoufies and Wars; each would have prognof'ticated, that the fiourifliing State of the one portended the Downfall of the other; each the Parts of the fame Government from their: unnatural and foolifh Contellts, but which would conclude equally firong againlt repair-ate and in- dependant Nations making War with each other would have had their refpe€tive Complaints,‘ w_\t\\n\|mun on the like Pretext. uttered in the molt doler‘ul Accents, concerning their own Lofs of Trade, and of the formidable MOREOVER, the Inltinft of Curiolity, and the Thirl't of Novelty, which are to univerfally Progrels of their Rivals; and, if the i'elpeétivc Governments were in any Degree pOpular, each implanted in human Nature, whereby various Nations and dili'erent People 12) ardently with to would have had a Set of Patriots and Orators clofing their inflammatory Harangues wrtha delenda efl Cartz'mgo. " We mutt deftroy our be Cul'tomers to each other, is another Proof, that the curious Manufactures ofone Nation will never want a Vent among the richer Inhabitants " Rivals, our Competitors, and commercial "Enemies, or be del'troyed by them; f0r " our Interelts are Oppofite, and can never " coincide." And yet, notwithftanding all i there canting Phrafes, it is as clear as the MCridian Sun, that in Cale thele Cities had be- longed to different Kingdoms (Frame and England for Example) there would then have ‘ been no more Need for either of them to have i gone to War than there is at prefent. In (110"! if: Indeed this Inflinfl, like all other Inflinfls and Paflions, out to be put under praper Regalaticm, ntherwile it may do more Hurt than Good. But. this Necellity of due Regulation is no more an Objection againll the good Tendency 0f the Infiint‘l itl'elr', than the Rules of Temperance 1nd Sobriety are Objections againft Eating and Drinking in a moderate and reafonable Degree. The Inliiné‘t itlelf is certainly good ; but may be mifapplied :---And what may not B. The/101171211Regulation: it {hould be under, will bc mentioned elfewliere. of _ |