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They were wise without experience, virtuous
without principle, and social without motives
to society.

The Laws made by formed for a people whose virtue
render'd Laws impertinent; were treasured devolt in
their memory, without any one's having convey'd
it to their eyes or ears. It was a certain
kindly exhalation of the Soil, floating in the
atmosphere of these happy regions which mingling
itself with the vulgar air, found itself & way
through their lungs into their hearts: the same
which gives that virtue to our dogs & Gamecocks,
which then are so sure to love upon being when trans -ported
on a foreign soil.

Tis understand, In a word, it was would you know precisely what it was? it was precisely the same with that we have now —
with only such alterations as leave not, a single
trace worth boasting of, discernable. + + v. the list of 12 or 13 portions specimens of identity between the aboriginal & present Law: & so make references all along

The Public may perhaps one day see, an attempt
to build up somthing in it's room. But at
any rate it will be of service to have demolished
error, though the ground should remain
sometime vacant. The right of a vacancy in the territories of knowledge, is an invitation to others as well as him that made it, to come in & build Simple ignorance is a
greater step friend than every one is aware to knowledge.
It gives the reins to inquiry when curiosity
gives the spur; to inquiry; and nor fails curiosity in
the certain offspring of a souce of interest. to mount the <add>give it when interest gives the nod.</add>
Error planges overturns the [human vehicle] mind motionless in quagarious;
or hurries it out of the road through over Rocks
& precipices.

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