peace at home. War, famine, and pestilence, the usual cures for
corruption in bodies politic. A comparison of these three--the
author is to write a panegyric on each of them. The greatest part
of mankind loves war more than peace. They are but few and mean-
spirited that live in peace with all men. The modest and meek of
all kinds always a prey to those of more noble or stronger
appetites. The inclination to war universal; those that cannot or
dare not make war in person employ others to do it for them. This
maintains bullies, bravoes, cut-throats, lawyers, soldiers, &c.
Most professions would be useless if all were peaceable. Hence
brutes want neither smiths nor lawyers, magistrates nor joiners,
soldiers or surgeons. Brutes having but narrow appetites, are
incapable of carrying on or perpetuating war against their own
species, or of being led out in troops and multitudes to destroy one
another. These prerogatives proper to man alone. The excellency of
human nature demonstrated by the vast train of appetites, passions,
wants, &c., that attend it. This matter to be more fully treated in
the author's panegyric on mankind.



THE HISTORY OF MARTIN--Continued.



How Jack, having got rid of the old landlord, set up another to his
mind, quarrelled with Martin, and turned him out of doors. How he
pillaged all his shops, and abolished his whole dispensatory. How
the new landlord {164a} laid about him, mauled Peter, worried
Martin, and made the whole neighbourhood tremble. How Jack's