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But theſe Details would alone furniſh ſufficient Matter for a more conſiderable Work, in which might be weighed the Advantages and Diſadvantages of every Species of Government, relatively to the Rights of Man in a State of Nature, and might likewiſe be unveiled all the different Faces under which Inequality has appeared to this Day, and may hereafter appear to the end of Time, according to the Nature of theſe ſeveral Governments, and the Revolutions which Time muſt unavoidably occaſion in them. We ſhould then ſee the Multitude oppreſſed by domeſtic Tyrants in conſequence of thoſe very Precautions taken by them to guard againſt foreign Maſters. We ſhould ſee Oppreſſion increaſe continually without its being ever poſſible for the Oppreſſed to know where it would ſtop, nor what lawful Means they had left to check its Progreſs. We ſhould ſee the Rights of Citizens, and