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Having now sketched some of
the prevalent kinds of discontent,
and traced some of them to their supposed
origins respectively, I find my-
-self compelled to forgo any con-
-sideration of remedial agencies or
oppugnant forces, other than those
which are most obvious, and can not
fail to suggest themselves. I am
satisfied that some of these forms
of discontent are not themselves
to be deplored at all, so long
as the occasioning causes of them exist, which
are themselves the things most to be la-
-mented. Those forms of discontent
which spring from the existence