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Happineſs? In examining what were the beſt Maxims good Senſe might preſcribe for the Conſtitution of a perfect Government, I was ſo ſtruck to find them all complied with in yours, that, tho' I had not been born within your Walls, I ſhould have thought myſelf indiſpenſably obliged to offer this Picture of human Society to that People, which of all others, in my Opinion, enjoys the greateſt Advantages of it, and has beſt guarded againſt its ſmalleſt Abuſes.
Had I been the Maſter to chuſe a Birth-place for myſelf, I ſhould have choſen a Society of an Extent proportioned to that of the human
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