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A.2. Government demands in the Prince a thoro' knowledge of the People, this cannot be acquir'd without great labour & Study, but that is the bane of pleasure & revolts the natural idleness that attends us, absolute power removes this difficulty, dispenses from all application & fatiguing attention, & reduces Men to a Servile compliance to our will; in this Government as Aristotle observes there can exist but one freeman, all the rest are Slaves.

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