Page:A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (IA discourseuponori00rous).pdf/144

 to reaon themelves into Virtue, the human Species would long ago have ceaed to exit, had it depended entirely for its Preervation on the Reaonings of the Individuals that compoe it.

With Paions o tame, and o alutary a curb, Men, rather wild than wicked, and more attentive to guard againt Michief than to do any to other Animals, were not expoed to any dangerous Dienions: As they kept up no manner of Correpondence with each other, and were of coure Strangers to Vanity, to Repect, to Eteem, to Contempt; As they had no Notion of what we call Meum and Tuum, nor any true Idea of Jutice; As they conidered any Violence they were liable to, as an Evil that could be eaily repaired, and not as an Injury that deerved Punihment; And as they never o much as dreamed of Revenge, unles perhaps mechanically and unpremeditatedly,