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A.7. Vizir can have no proper idea of Justice, he is ignorant that it is a public good, to be just & Virtuous we must know the respective dutys of the Prince & Subject, we must Study the reciprocal engagements that unite together all the Members of a Society, to acquire this knowledge we must think, but what man dares think under an Arbitrary government, the intrigues of a Seraglio, idleness, the want of custom, & the very danger of thinking, soon takes away the power of doing it, for few People think in Countrys where they must carefully suppress their thoughts, interest in Turkey will never push a man to application, & he who seeks the Vizirs place does it to pay a servile Court, & by that means to share the power of his Sovereign, if he