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Show 6o ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMMERCI': neoully to produce. An ajjignaticm ~f ~roperty would not only enforce an apphcatwn, but excite an emulation, to labour; and govemment would at once afford a (ecurity to the acquifitions of the indufirious, a~d heal the intefiine diforders of the commumty, by the introduction of laws. Such then were the remedies, that were gradually applied. The .focieties, :"~ich _had hitherto feen their members, undJfiingmlhcd either by authority or rank, admitted now of magifiratical pre-eminence. They were divided into tribes; to every tribe was allotted a particular difiriCl: for its fupport, and to every individual his particular (pot. *The Germans, who con lilted of many and various nations, were exaCtly in this fituation. They had advanced a fiep beyond the Scythians, Ga:tulians, and tho(e, whom we defcribed before; and thus was the third fituation of mankind a fiate of jubordinate· ficiety. • Agri pro Numero Cultorum ab univerfis per vico~ occu~ pantur, quos mox inter fe fecundum dignationem parttunt~~tr. T~citu3. C. z6. de Mor. Gerro. CHAP. oF THE HuMAN SPECII:s, 6r C H A P. II. As we have thus traced the fituation of man from unbounded liberty to fubordination, it will be proper to carry our inquiries farther, and to confider, who firft obtained the pre-eminence in the(e prrilla?Val foczeties, and by what particular methods it was obtained. There were only two ways, by which fuch an event could have been produced, by compu! fion or co1yent. When mankind firft faw the neceffity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the defire of ruling. To be placed in a new fituation, to be taken from the common herd, to be the firft, diftinguilhed among men, were thoughts, that mull: have had their charms. Let us fuppofe then, that thefe thoughts had worked fo unufually on the paffions of any particular individual, as to have driven him to the extravagant defign of obtaining the preeminence by force. How could his defign have been accomplilhed? How could he forcibly have ufurped the jurifdiCl:ion at a titne, |