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— Guillaume Thomas Francois Raynal"Government owes its birth to the necessity of preventing and repressing the injuries which the associated individuals had to fear from one another."
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The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.
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