equivalent to that of Property, the Equality once broken was followed by the moſt ſhocking Diſorders. It is thus that the Uſurpations of the Rich, the Pillagings of the Poor, and the unbridled Paſſions of all, by ſtifling the Cries of natural Compaſſion, and the as yet feeble Voice of Juſtice, rendered Man avaricious, wicked and ambitious. There aroſe between the Title of the Strongeſt, and that of the firſt Occupier a perpetual Conflict, which always ended in Battery and Bloodſhed. (17) Infant Society became a Scene of the moſt horrible Warfare: Mankind thus debaſed and haraſſed, and no longer able to retreat, or renounce the unhappy Acquiſitions it had made; labouring, in ſhort merely to its Confuſion by the Abuſe of thoſe Faculties, which in themſelves do it ſo much Honour, brought itſelf to the very brink of Ruin and Deſtruction.
