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 Grapes; all Operations which we mut allow them to have learned from the Gods, ince we cannot conceive how they hould make uch Dicoveries of themelves; after all thee fine Preents, what Man would be mad enough to cultivate a Field, that may be robbed by the firt Comer, Man or Beat, who takes a fancy to the Produce of it. And would any Man conent to pend his Days in Labour and Fatigue, when the Rewards of his Labour and Fatigue became more and more precarious in Proportion to his Want of them? In a word, how could this Situation engage Men to cultivate the Earth, as long as it was not parcelled out among them, that is, as long as a State of Nature ubited.? [sic]

Tho' we hould uppoe Savage Man as well vered in the Art of Thinking, as Philoophers make him; tho' we were, after them, to make him a Philoopher himelf, dicovering of himelf the