ed without loſing any thing, becauſe while every thing about them changed they alone remained the ſame, were obliged to receive or force their Subſiſtence from the Hands of the Rich. And hence began to flow, according to the different Characters of each, Domination and Slavery, or Violence and Rapine. The Rich on their Side ſcarce began to taſte the Pleaſure of commanding, when they preferred it to every other; and making uſe of their old Slaves to acquire new ones, they no longer thought of any thing but ſubduing and enſlaving their Neighbours; like thoſe ravenous Wolves, who having once taſted human Fleſh, deſpiſe every other Food, and devour nothing but Men for the future.
It is thus that the moſt powerful or the moſt wretched, reſpectively conſidering their power and wretchedneſs as a kind of Title to the Subſtance of others, even
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