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 ecure to them the Enjoyment of ome Part at leat of their natural Imbecility and Happines.

Savage Man, abandoned by Nature to pure Intinct, or rather indemnified for that which has perhaps been denied to him by Faculties capable of immediately upplying the place of it, and of raiing him afterwards a great deal higher, would therefore begin with Functions that were merely Animal: (10) to ee and to feel would be his firt Condition, which he would enjoy in common with other Animals. To will and not to will, to wih and to fear, would be the firt, and in a manner, the only Operations of his Soul, till new Circumtances occaioned new Developments.

Let Moralits ay what they will, the Human Undertanding is greatly indebted to the Paions, which, on their Side, are