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 where the Care of our own Preervation interferes leat with the Preervation of others, was of coure the mot favourable to Peace, and mot uitable to Mankind; whereas he advances the very revere in conequence of his having injudiciouly admitted, as Objects of that Care which Savage Man hould take of his Preervation, the Satisfaction of numberles Paions which are the work of Society, and have rendered Laws neceary. A bad Man, ays he, is a robut Child. But this is not proving that Savage Man is a robut Child; and tho' we were to grant that he was, what could this Philoopher infer from uch a Conceion? That if this Man, when robut, depended on others as much as when feeble, there is no Exces that he would not be guilty of. He would make nothing of triking his Mother when he delayed ever o little to give him the Breat; he would claw, and bite, and trangle without remore