laſt conceived the deepeſt Project that ever entered the Human Mind: this was to employ in his favour the very Forces that attacked him, to make Allies of his Enemies, to inſpire them with other Maxims, and make them adopt other Inſtitutions as favourable to his Pretenſions, as the Law of Nature was unfavourable to them.
With this View, after laying before his Neighbours all the Horrors of a Situation, which armed them all one againſt another, which rendered their Poſſeſſions as burthenſome as their Wants were intolerable, and in which no one could expect any Safety either in Poverty or Riches, he eaſily invented ſpecious Arguments to bring them over to his Purpoſe. "Let us unite, ſaid he, to ſecure the Weak from Oppreſſion, reſtrain the Ambitious, and ſecure to every Man the Poſſeſſion of what
