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 and their Members as oberving among themelves an Union, equally intimate and permanent with that which we ee exit in a Civil State, where o many common Interets conpire to unite them; whereas in this primitive State, as there were neither Houes nor Cabbins, nor any kind of Property, every one took up his Lodging at random, and eldom continued above one Night in the ame Place; Males and Females united without any premeditated Deign, as Chance, Occaion, or Deire brought them together, nor had they any great Occaion for Language to make known their Thoughts to each other. They parted with the ame Eae. (12) The Mother uckled her Children, when jut born, for her own ake; but afterwards out of Love and Affection to them, when Habit and Cutom had made them dear to her; but they no ooner gained Strength enough to run about in quet of Food than they eparated even from her of