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common Dress, yet which shock us when they are nakedly represented. But this Number, considerable as it is, and the Slavery, with all it's Baseness and Horror, which we have at Home, is nothing to what the rest of the World affords of the same Nature. Millions daily bathed in the poisonous Damps and destructive Effluvia of Lead, Silver, Copper, and Arsenick. To say nothing of those other Employments, those Stations of Wretchedness and Contempt in which Civil Society has placed the numerous Enfans perdus of her Army. Would any rational Man submit to one of the most tolerable of these Drudgeries for all the artificial Enjoyments which Policy has made to result from them? By no Means. And yet need I suggest to your Lordship, that those who find the Means, and those who arrive at the End, are not at all the same Persons. On considering the strange and unaccountable Fancies and Contrivances of Artificial Reason, I have somewhere called this Earththe