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under consideration, and this I shall attempt to do in a manner as concise as possible.

Right reason will not submit to the general received opinion that one portion of the human race may thrive
in proportion, as the other is kept in a state of subjugation, and depression, and poverty. From a poor neighbour, little or nothing is to be gotten, universal property can only conduce to general and individual comfort, and free relieve man from many of the evils of human life. - Every man one more or less entertains a kindred feelings towards his native soil, his relations, and first connexions. But although man may appear selfish in his mind and [indecipherable], yet the aim and end of the creation is universal happiness and benevolence, and general happiness. the aim of the creator, and the end of the creation. Let no man, because he may say to himself, and feel within himself, that his follies, vices and crimes the defeat the intentions of Heaven, dare to detract from the glories of his creator by arguing that the good of all does not come within the Scheme of his providence. The world is only one great community, and to injure or defeat any one part of this community must be injurious to the whole yet [indecipherable] such is the 

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