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inces=. And I cannot but take notice that this last good Service was done by the same Method, which, tho' in a more moderate way, I have here proposed. For it is well known that the Regent of =France= did at last set Bounds to the Contagion by =Lines= and =Barriers= guarded by Soldiers: which wise Resolution saved not only his own but other Countries from the spreading of a Disease, which seems to have been of as violent a kind as ever was brought into =Europe=. HOWEVER, if there were any Severity in Orders of this kind, every Man ought to consider himself as a Member of the Society; by the Laws of which as he receives many Advantages, so he gives up somewhat of his own private Rights to the Public: and must therefore be perfectly satisfied with whatever is found necessary for the common Good; altho' it may, on particular Occasions, bring upon him some Inconveniences and Sufferings. Salus Populi suprema Lex est. Does any body complain of ill usage upon his House being ordered to be blown up, to stop the Progress of a Fire which endangers the whole Street: when he reflects that his Neighbour, who by this means escapes, must have suffered the same Loss for his sake, had it so happened that each had been in the other's Habitation? BUT in truth, there is no Cruelty, but on the contrary real Compassion in these Regulations, with the Limitations I have made: and I am fully persuaded that whoever with Judgment considers the nature of this Disease, will easily see that the Rules here laid down are not only the best, but indeed the only ones that can effectually answer the purpose. And therefore I should not doubt but that, if this Calamity (which God avert!) should be brought into our Country, even the Voice of the People would cry out for Help in this way: notwithstanding wrong Notions of their =Liberties= may sometimes over-possess their Minds, and make them, even under the best of Governments, impatient of any =Restraints=. PART I. Of the PLAGUE in general. CHAP. I. _Of the Origine and Nature of the Plague._ MY Design in this Discourse being to propose what Measures I think most proper to defend the Nation against the _Plague_, and for this End to consider the Nature of _Pestilential Contagion_ as far as is necessary to set forth the Reasonableness of the Precepts I shall lay down; before I proceed to any particular Directions, I shall enquire a little into the Causes, whence the _Plagu
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