The Political Writings of Joel Barlow Containing Advice to the Privileged
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A gov ernment which had been founded in violence, and was to be carried on for the exclusive benefit of a final! proportion of the community, muft have been under the ncccflity, at all time, -, of fupport- mg itfelf by impofition. This circumftance goes at once to the difcouragement and the difufe of the moral powers tf individuals ; as they muft ceafe to be cultivated, 'the moment they ceafe to be ref- pefted. As the nation, at the fame time, grew more numerous, and the fuccefs of war and othe...r reat operations were found to depend lefs on 136 ' ADVICE TO THE ly firength, this too began to lofe its eftirriatioty and could no longer be relied on, as a title to ref- pel. A natural fefource therefore, by which to efcape from, thefe unnatural reftritions, \vas found in a veneration for external and fallacious figns of merit, appropriated to individuals. This was the origin of all hereditary titles of honour ; and it mutt likewife have been the origin, at leaft in a great meafure$ of our exceffive attachment to property.
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