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THE

INFLUENCE

O F

GOVERNMENT, &c.

HE excellent Mr. LOCKE has afferted,

in a complete little treatife of the understanding, that' we are born with faculties, and powers, capable almoft of any thing; and that there is often a com

plaint of want of parts, when the fault lies

in want of a due improvement of them.' How far, or whether government has retarded the progrefs of abilities, may be best gathered from the reflection of man's firft incorporation into fociety, and of the concomitant establishment of laws.

It must neceffarily be prefumed, that the earlier fyftems of focial regulation contained

a

a portion of defect; that several spots exifted (and how could it be otherwife?) which received a gradual amendment. But we may conclude with the Theorifts, that government built itself at laft on the bafis of Monar chy, arbitrary and limited; and of Faction's nurse, Democracy.

This improvement of the civil plan evinces the improvement of the mental faculties.--2 The light burft at once from the great luminary of creation, but the dawn of intellect leads to the noon of knowledge; the noon (experience teaches us!) too frequently dwindles into night. Government fuffers fimilar viciffitudes; each carries within itself the feeds of its diffolution.

The tranfition from the chaös of a natural ftate, to the more refined rule of fubordina tion, was a fingular proof, no less than a rational exertion, of the intellectual powers. Ideots had been incapable of it, and had therefore never emerged from their primitive infufficiency-an infufficiency, which had rendered