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Letter X. Choice of the Trades should be free.
of that description, as I have in that sort of knave called a Contractor.
I see no sort of danger, that to the Contractor there should be any
one object upon earth dearer than the interest of the Contractor: but
I see some danger that there may be, now and then by accident, some
other object rather dearer to the Magistrate: Among these rival
objects, if we do not always reckon the pleasure of plaguing the
Contractor, should he and the Magistrate chance not to agree,
we may however not unfrequently reckon the exercise of his (the
Magistrate's) own power, and the display of his own wisdom: the
former of which, he may naturally enough conceive, was not given
to him for nothing, nor the latter confided in without cause. You
must, I think, before now have met with examples of men, that
had rather a plan of the publick's, or even of an individual, for
whom they had a more particular regard, should miscarry under
their management, than prosper under a different one.
But if, without troubling yourself about general theories
of human nature, you have a mind for a more palpable test of the
propriety of this reasoning, you may cut the matter short enough,
by making an experiment upon a Contractor, and trying whether
he will give you as good terms with these dogs about him, as he would
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