We Are But One Of The Multitude,

What Can Be Added To The Happiness Of The Man Who Is In Health, Who Is Out Of Debt, And Has A Clear Conscience?

But What All The Violence Of The Feudal Institutions Could Never Have Effected, The Silent And Insensible Operation Of Foreign Commerce And Manufactures Gradually Brought About.

Mercantile Jealousy Is Excited, And Both Inflames, And Is Itself Inflamed, By The Violence Of National Animosity.

Such Regulations May, No Doubt, Be Considered As In Some Respect A Violation Of Natural Liberty. But Those Exertions Of The Natural Liberty Of A Few Individuals, Which Might Endanger The Security Of The Whole Society, Are, And Ought To Be, Restrained By The Laws Of All Governments; Of The Most Free, As Well As Or The Most Despotical. The Obligation Of Building Party Walls, In Order To Prevent The Communication Of Fire, Is A Violation Of Natural Liberty, Exactly Of The Same Kind With The Regulations Of The Banking Trade Which Are Here Proposed.

The Difference Between The Most Dissimilar Characters, Between A Philosopher And A Common Street Porter, For Example, Seems To Arise Not So Much From Nature, As From Habit, Custom, And Education.