was fallen, and remembered the favour and the glory from which his own rash|ness had so unfortunately thrown him.
CHAP. II. Of the origin of ambition, and of the distinction of ranks.
IT is because mankind are disposed to sympathise more entirely with our joy than with our sorrow, that we make parade of our riches, and conceal our poverty. Nothing is so mortifying as to be obliged to expose our distress to the view of the pub|lic, and to feel, that though our situation is open to the eyes of all mankind, no mor|tal conceives for us the half of what we suffer. Nay, it is chiefly from this regard to the sentiments of mankind, that we pur|sue riches and avoid poverty. For to what purpose is all the toil and bustle of this world? what is the end of avarice and am|bition, of the pursuit of wealth, of power, and preheminence? Is it to supply the ne|cessities of nature? The wages of the meanest labourer can supply them. We see that they afford him food and cloath|ing,
