to render Commerce poſſible, and ſupply the place of natural Compaſſion, which, loſing by degrees all that Influence over Societies which it originally had over Individuals, no longer exiſts but in ſome great Souls, who conſider themſelves as Citizens of the World, and forcing the imaginary Barriers that ſeparate People from People, after the Example of the Sovereign Being from whom we all derive our Exiſtence, make the whole human Race the Object of their Benevolence.
Political Bodies, thus remaining in a State of Nature among themſelves, ſoon experienced the Inconveniencies which had obliged Individuals to quit it; and this State became much more fatal to theſe great Bodies, than it had been before to the Individuals which now compoſed them. Hence thoſe national Wars, thoſe Battles, thoſe Murders, thoſe
