AN ESSAY ON THE NATURAL EQUALITY OF MEN; ON THE RIGHTS THAT RESULT FROM IT, AND ON THE DUTIES WHICH IT IMPOSES: To which a SILVER MEDAL was adjudged by the Laurence By WILLIAM (LAWRENCE) BROWN, D. D. PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY, AND THE SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED. Aliquid femper ad communem utilitatem afferendum. CICERO. LONDON: PRINTED FOR C. DILLY, AND T. CADELL; AND T. DUNCAN, EDINBURGH, Libr. Helcher 3.27-44 49508 WH PREFACE. HOEVER has attentively confidered the feries of questions proposed for public difcuffion by the Teylerian Society, will acknowledge that they have usually had the peculiar advantage of uniting curious investigation with general utility. But, of all the queftions proposed by this, or by any literary fociety whatever, none appears either of greater consequence in itself, or, from the complexion of the times, more likely to excite attention, than that which is now offered, by this respectable body, as the fubject of competition for the literary honour which they annually confer. It directly leads to examine the principal 2.3 |