Knowledge Both Enlarges And Multiplies Our Desires,

Some People Are Not To Be Persuaded To Taste Of Any Creatures They Have Daily Seen And Been Acquainted With, While They Were Alive; Others Extend Their Scruple No Further Than To Their Own Poultry, And Refuse To Eat What They Fed And Took Care Of Themselves; Yet All Of Them Will Feed Heartily And Without Remorse On Beef, Mutton And Fowls When They Are Bought In The Market.

What A Vast Traffick Is Drove, What A Variety Of Labour Is Performed In The World To The Maintenance Of Thousands Of Families That Altogether Depend On Two Silly If Not Odious Customs; The Taking Of Snuff And Smoking Of Tobacco; Both Which It Is Certain Do Infinitely More Hurt Than Good To Those That Are Addicted To Them!

The First Rudiments Of Morality, Broach'd By Skilful Politicians, To Render Men Useful To Each Other As Well As Tractable, Were Chiefly Contrived That The Ambitious Might Reap The More Benefit From, And Govern Vast Numbers Of Them With The Greater Ease And Security.

They That Examine Into The Nature Of Man, Abstract From Art And Education, May Observe, That What Renders Him A Sociable Animal, Consists Not In His Desire Of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, And Other Graces Of A Fair Outside; But That His Vilest And Most Hateful Qualities Are The Most Necessary Accomplishments To Fit Him For The Largest, And, According To The World, The Happiest And Most Flourishing Societies.

If Laying Aside All Worldly Greatness And Vain-glory, I Should Be Ask'd Where I Thought It Was Most Probable That Men Might Enjoy True Happiness, I Would Prefer A Small Peaceable Society, In Which Men, Neither Envy'd Nor Esteem'd By Neighbours, Should Be Contented To Live Upon The Natural Product Of The Spot They Inhabit, To A Vast Multitude Abounding In Wealth And Power, That Should Always Be Conquering Others By Their Arms Abroad, And Debauching Themselves By Foreign Luxury At Home.