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 mere Senation and the mot imple Knowledge become in our Eyes; and it is impoible to conceive how Man, by his own Powers alone, without the Aitance of Communication, and the Spur of Neceity, could have got over o great an Interval. How many Ages perhaps revolved, before Men beheld any other Fire but that of the Heavens? How many different Accidents mut have concurred to make them acquainted with the mot common Ues of this Element? How often have they let it go out, before they knew the Art of reproducing it? And how often perhaps has not every one of thee Secrets perihed with the Dicoverer? What hall we ay of Agriculture, an Art which requires o much Labour and Foreight; which depends upon other Arts; which, it is very evident, cannot be practied but in a Society, if not a formed one, at leat one of ome tanding, and which does not o much erve to draw