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 what it is to die, and the Knowledge of Death, and of its Terrors, is one of the firt Acquiitions made by Man, in conequence of his deviating from the Animal State.

I could eaily, were it requiite, cite Facts in upport of this Opinion, and how, that the Progres of the Mind has every where kept Pace exactly with the Wants, to which Nature had left the Inhabitants expoed, or to which Circumtances had ubjected them, and conequently to the Paions, which inclined them to provide for thee Wants. I could exhibit in Ægypt the Arts tarting up, and extending themelves with the Inundations of the Nile; I could purue them in their Progres among the Greeks, where they were een to bud forth, grow, and rie to the Heavens, in the midt of the Sands and Rocks of Attica, without being able to take Root on the fertile