his horns as did his before him � the lion the and the tiger only with their and their to fury and even the ihe same and uses the s improvements in war and as did his before the flood man blessed with the mind goes on from to discovery � and his powers of destruction the tremendous weapons of deity itself and tasks creation to assist him in his brother worm in proportion as the art of war has in improvement has the art of preserving peace ad in equal and as we have discovered in this age of wonders and inventions that is the most formidable in war so have we discovered the no less ingenious of maintaining peace by perpetual a treaty or to speak more correctly a therefore according to the o experienced learned in these matters is no longer an attempt to accommodate to ascertain rights and to exchange of kind offices but a of skill between two powers which shall over � reach and take in the other it is a cunning en � to obtain by peaceful and th of those advantages which nation would otherwise have by force o arms in the same manner that a and becomes an excellent no t� are the best s citizen himself with � eating his neighbour out of that property he ould formerly have seized with open violence in bet the only time when two nations can be said to be in a state of perfect is when a is open and a treaty then as there are no entered into no bonds to the will no specific limits to awaken the jealousy of right in out nature as each party has some advantage to hope and expect from the other then it is that the two nations are so gracious and friendly to each other their ministers the highest mutual regard exchanging making fine speeches and indulging in all those little and that do so the good humour of the respective nations thus it may be aid that there is never so good an understanding between two nations as when there is a little misunderstanding � and that so long as they are on no terms they are on the best terms in the world i do not by any means pretend to claim the merit of having made the above political discovery it has in ct long been secretly acted upon by j h w td ruin enlightened and is er divers other notable theories privately copied out of the common place book of an gen who has been member of and the unlimited confidence of heads of de j to this principle may be ingenuity that has been op years in � hence the cunning measure of ai some im and and u m the art of or whose errors and may be a plea for refusing to iii engagements and hence too that most l so popular with our of sending out a brace of who i m h an individual will to consult character establish and interest to promote you ma as well look for and n tm lovers with one mistress two dogs with one or two naked with one pair of breeches this therefore is continually breed ing and in consequence o� which the goes on � much as there is no prospect of its ever coming a � war fu � d v by md but in a to i exposed all time is in so much time � with what does modem political economy i now au that i have here advanced so i to take up the readers with treating of matters many a time have stared them in the face but die to which i would most call attention is this that though a be the most hi of all na yet a treaty of peace is a great political evil and one of the most fruitful sources l ha e rarely seen an instance of any special contract between individuals that did not produce j and often downright between them nor did i ever know of a between two nations that did not occasion how many worthy neighbours have i known who after living in and good fellowship for years have been into a state of distrust and by some ill agreement about fences when are binding runs of water and stray cattle and how many well meaning nations who would otherwise have remained in the most disposition towards each other have been brought to swords points about the or of some treaty which in an evil hour they had concluded by way of making their more sure at best are but with so as interest requires their consequently they are binding on the weaker party only or in plain truth they are not binding at all no nation will go to war with an other if it has nothing to gain thereby and therefore needs no treaty to restrain it from violence and if it have any thing to gain i much question from what i have witnessed of the righteous conduct of nations whether any treaty could be made so strong that it could not thrust the sword through � nay i would hold ten to one the treaty itself would be the very source to which resort would be had to find a pretext for thus therefore i conclude � that though it is the best of all for a nation to keep up a constant with its neighbours yet it is the summit of folly for it ever to be into a treaty for then comes on the non fulfilment uke courtship and then remonstrance then then then and finally open war in a word is like courtship a time of sweet words gallant speeches soft looks and caresses � but the marriage ceremony is the signal for s chapter iv how peter was greatly by his the moss 