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 likewie univerally allowed to be greatly indebted to the Human Undertanding. It is by the Activity of our Paions, that our Reaon improves; we covet Knowledge merely becaue we covet Enjoyment, and it is impoible to conceive, why a Man exempt from Fears and Deires hould take the Trouble to reaon. The Paions, in their turn, owe their Origin to our Wants, and their Increae to our Progres in Science; for we cannot deire or fear any Thing, but in conequence of the Ideas we have of it, or of the imple Impules of Nature; and Savage Man, detitute of every Species of Knowledge, experiences no Paions but thoe of this lat Kind; his Deires never extend beyond his Phyical Wants; (11) He knows no Goods but Food, a Female, and Ret; he fears no Evils but Pain, and Hunger; I ay Pain, and not Death; for no Animal, merely as uch, will ever know