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11. subjects. To prove this He sent into his own kingdom, to ask the subscriptions of His Friends {so he called his principal subjects) to a voluntary loan or a loan of Benevolence: as we should express ourselves at this time. The Messenger returned soon, and the grant of the Persians to their King exceeded all the Treasures that Crosus had hoarded up.

A King of Britain who has been bred to govern on such Principles as are here suggested, will place Himself deservedly where nothing else could place Him, in the highest rank of Humanity: He will cooperate with the Most High, and will be truly God’s Vicegerent on Earth. His subjects will feel this influence in the actual happiness they enjoy as so many individuals, and they will hope reasonably for the continuance of this national happiness as members of a Society. I say, they will hope for it reasonably, for certain it is and universal experience proves it to be so, that however the providence of God may leave particular Men to be happy or unhappy in the ordinary course of human affairs, the divine sanctions of rewards and punishments annexed to the law of Nature never fail to attend the collective bodies of men. General Vice leads necessarily to the ruin of Societies, General Virtue which good government alone can propagate, to their Prosperity.

Since so many acquisitions as have been mentioned are necessary to form a great and good Prince, no time is to be lost in either part of his Education, nor especially in the second. Let the utmost care therefore be taken, that He neither sink into Sloth, nor break loose into Dissipation. Let Him go to bed early, but let Him rise early too, and having had that time of Rest which Health requires, let Him not be suffered