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but to no other purpose, than to convince the people of their slavery."
Felix quem faciunt, aliena pericula cautum.
SECTION IV.
In what manner an authoritative code of education would affect political and civil liberty.
HAVING considered the nature of civil liberty in general, I shall treat of two capital branches of which it consists. These are the rights of education, and religion. On these two articles much of the happiness of human life is acknowledged to depend; but they appear to me to be of such a nature, that the advantage we derive from them will be more effectually secured, when they are conducted by individuals, than by the state; and if this can be demonstrated, nothing more is necessary, to prove that the civil magi-
