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 Aliments from the Earth, for the Earth would yield them without all that Trouble, as to oblige her to produce thoe things, which we like bet, preferably to others? But let us uppoe that Men had multiplied to uch a Degree, that the natural Products of the Earth no longer ufficed for their Support; a Suppoition which, by the bye, would prove that this Kind of Life would be very advantageous to the Human Species; let us uppoe that, without Forge or Anvil, the Intruments of Hubandry had dropt from the Heavens into the Hands of Savages, that thee Men had got the better of that mortal Averion they all have for contant Labour; that they had learned to foretell their Wants at o great a Ditance of Time; that they had gueed exactly how they were to break the Earth, commit their Seed to it, and plant Trees; that they had found out the Art of grinding their Corn, and improving by Fermentation the Juice of their