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8 C
Of favouring Desertion.
Preliminary Observations.
The various articles of which the national force
of the state consists are reducible to two: viz: men and things. As to
that those parts of it which consist of things they the application
of them to their proper uses is in good measure secured guarded by the
same laws by which private property is secured.
The most valuable part branch of the public force
and that in which any deficiency is with most difficulty
replaced consists in men who under the denomination
of soldiers or sailors are trained up for this and appropriated
to this perilous and honourable line of service.
This branch of the public force like any other is
great or small sufficient or insufficient by comparison:
that is by comparison with the force of other
states against which there may be occasion for employing
it. But of the states which have any sort
of communication with one another there are scarce
any two that may not, but which may on some occasion or another
come to disagree: there is therefore scarcely any
state against which it may not become necessary that the force of a given the state in question
may not come to should on some occasion or another be employ'd. In the balance of power between any two such states it will therefore make little difference whether a weight be taken out of one scale or added to another Besides Moreover, of
this most important kind of wealth it is but a limited
kind that each nation has to draw out of. The gain draught therefore
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