An Essay on the Natural Equality of Men; On the Rights That Result from It, and on the Duties Which It Imposes: To Which a Silver Medal Was Adjudged ... at Haarlem, April 1792 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The writer is fumciently' aware that the principles' which he attempts to unfold, will not be agreeable either to the' Wild cpthtifiafls for liberty, or to the fer. Vile and tyrannical abettors of arbitrary power, That moderation, which flows' from the love and the per ception of truth (which commonly lies between two extremes) is feldom acceptable to the multitude, who; incapable of diflinguiihing the ufe from the abufe of things,_ are generally as extravagant and impetuous in the maintenance of right, as in the abetment of Wrong. It is only the few, who have {haken off the fhackles of prejudice, difpelled the clouds of pailien, and barf! From the dungeon in which they confihe the foul, that' can view and reliih objeé'ts as they appear in the pure ahd Ready light in which nature exhibits them. The eyes of the tell of mankind are either too weal: to full tain its lufire, or, if they have beheld it for fame time; become (0 much dazzled as to lofe fight of the oh.
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