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Pol. Just., Book VIIT, chap. 1x

32. Moral and Political Philosophy, Book vr, chap. x1, — Cf. le discours prononcé par Gray en 1773, on the bill to prevent vexations and removals of the poor : How inconsistent isit with reason that young, hale, vigorous men, whether labourers in agriculture or manufactures, who are well able to do it — should, on their offering to marry, have notice from the parish officers that they shall remove them, as likely to become chargeable ! Is not this of all other means, the most effectual to prevent and check population ? And did ever any nation under heaven grow great by checking population ?

33. Prospect I. À general View of the Imperfections of Human Society, and of the sources from whence they flow. — Prospect II. The Model of a perfect Government, not for a single nation only, but for the whole earth. — Prospect IT. Whether Government, according to the preceding Model, ever could have been, or ever can be established, and maintained in the world. — Prospect IV. The preceding Model of Government, though consistent with the Human Passions and Appetites, is upon the whole inconsistent with the circumstances of Mankind upon the Earth, — Les chapitres suivants traitent d’autres questions.

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