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Excerpt from Universal History, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 of 25: From the Earliest Records of Time, to the General Peace of 1801 On the other hand, let us scan mankind as joined in social order or civil confederacy mark their political manoeuvres, their subtle contrivances to depress, circumvent, or sub jugate each other; and what a busy ietare will be displayed to our view! We shali) often find them, through the means of error and prejudice, attempting to accomplish the most important ends of humanity; and, through the horrors of war, toiling to arrive at the enjoy ment of a secure and cordial cc. We shall find the purest philanthropy lended with the most insidious arts of destruction; stratagem hid under the veil of public Spirit; and the interests of communities and even nations fcc. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.