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 the firt of his younger Brothers, that ever o accidentally jotled or otherwie diturbed him. But thee are two contradictory Suppoitions in the State of Nature, to be robut and dependent. Man is weak when dependent, and his own Mater before he grows robut. Hobbes did not conider that the ame Caue, which hinders Savages from making ue of their Reaon, as our Juriconults pretend, hinders them at the ame time from making an ill ue of their Faculties, as he himelf pretends; o that we may ay that Savages are not bad, preciely becaue they don't know what it is to be good; for it is neither the Development of the Undertanding, nor the Curb of the Law, but the Calmnes of their Paions and their Ignorance of Vice that hinders them from doing ill: tanto plus in illis proficit Vitiorum ignorantia, quam in his cognitio Virtutis. There is beides another Principle that has ecaped Hobbes, and which, having been given