2.1 OF t IN GENERAL.

    ItItUtION

    Some ers y , as to leave little or no distinction bet only different, but  origins.

    Society is produced by our s, and government by our es our POSItIVELY by uniting our affections, tter NEGAtIVELY by restraining our vices.  tercourse, tes distinctions.

    t a patron, t a punisher.

    Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its  state an intolerable one; for ,  in a country It GOVERNMENt, our calamity is ened by reflecting t we furnishe means by which we suffer.

    Government, like dress, is t innocence; t on tibly obeyed, man  t not being t necessary to surrender up a part of y to furnisection of t; and to do by t of to c.  y being true design and end of government, it unans  likely to ensure it to us,  expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

    In order to gain a clear and just idea of t, let us suppose a small number of persons settled in some sequestered part of ted , t t peopling of any country, or of the world.

    In tate of natural liberty, society  t.

    A tives e to, trengto s, and ted for perpetual solitude, t o seek assistance and relief of anoturn requires ted o raise a tolerable d of a  one man mig of t accomplisimber  remove it, nor erect it after it  call  une  be mortal, yet eito a state in o periso die.

    ty, like a gravitating pos into society, tions of la unnecessary  to eac as not o vice, it