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Dedication.
Zeal that animates me, more than the Title that ſhould authorize me, to approach you for this Purpoſe. Having had the Happineſs of drawing my firſt Breath among you, how was it poſſible I ſhould meditate on the Equality Nature has eſtabliſhed among Men, and on the Inequality they themſelves have introduced, without thinking on the profound Wiſdom, with which both one and the other, happily combined together in this State, have been made to concur, in a Manner that deviates leaſt from the Laws of Nature and yet anſwers beſt the Ends of Society, to the Maintenance of public Order and the Security of private
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