Avenia, Or a Tragical Poem on the Oppression of the Human Species, and Infringement on the Rights of Man: In Six Books, with Notes Explanatory and Miscellaneous; Written in Imitation of Homer's Iliad (Classic Reprint)

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OF all the diversified publications Which may be productive of public utility, there is none of greater magnitude, no'ne more deserving general attention, none more intrinsically momentous to the citizens of America, than the subject of our investigation. The primary cause of the premature annihilation of modern as well as ancient-republics, was the impolitic lasitude of them citizens, in not guarding With indefatigable assiduity, the palladiums of their social and religious rights investigating the basis of their political and unalienable priviieges; and defending With tenfold so licitude the republican px'inciples of their respective governments. The matter in this performance is supremely interesting to mankind collectively, as well as the citizens of a republic individually. The freedom and happiness of Adém's fami1y, are objects Which equally merit the consideration of the savage and the sage, the peasant atd the philosopher, the his torian and the divine m short, the information deriv cd from the investigation of this subject, and Which cannot be investigated teo often, 18 of such a nature, that there is not an individuai - of the human species to whom it may not produ e-the most permanent advan tages. 'ou a subject of such importance many au thors, both in the old andtnew worlds, have written, several of Whose performances are deservedly eulo gised as works of sterling merit. But I must say' few have had the oppo'rtunity'of gaining the practical, as well as theoretical information on this subject, which.

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