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Dedication.

Faculties, that is, to the Poſſibility of being well governed, and in which every Member was ſo ſufficient for his Employments, as to be under no Neceſſity of devolving upon others the Truſt repoſed in him: a State, where all the Subjects could be ſo well known to each other, that neither the dark Machinations of Vice, nor the humble Modeſty of Virtue, ſhould be able to eſcape the Eyes and Judgment of the Public; and where, on Account of the ſweet habit of ſeeing and knowing each other, every Citizen's Love of his Country ſhould be a Love for its Inhabitants rather than for its Soil.

I ſhould