The Reflector Representing Human Affairs As They Are And May Be Improved
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Open " War would here be incommodious, and perfect Harmony hurtful. It is every Matter's Duty to preferve Peace in his Family, yet Expe- i iiT. Ce 202 Of Intercourse Seel:. II. rience fhews, it is not amifs to keep up fome little Jealoufies among Servants ; as Means to come at the Truth. A Judge may draw right Information from the Wrangling of the Lawyers. Objeftions I a m not pleading the Caufe of Vice, or dif- fuading from Virtue. I acknowledge that Peace and Union ought to be recommended ; f...o far as they tend to promote Happinefs. But as mod Men are prone to Evil \ Peace and Concord are not of fuch great and general Ufe, as thofe may imagine, who take Mankind, not for what they are, but for what they mould be. We muft not defire Mankind to pofTefs any Thing permanently, but what may be of permanent Ufe to them. Peace and Unity are not Things to be wifhed among Cheats and Robbers. All Societies of bad Men arc Gangs of Confpirators. If Men could be truly united to a good End, or the Promotion of general Happinefs, nothing is more devoutly to be wifhed than Union.
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