Page:A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind (IA discourseuponori00rous).pdf/145

 as a Dog who bites the Stone that has been thrown at him; their Diputes could eldom be attended with bloodhed, were they never occaioned by a more coniderable Stake than that of Subitence: but there is a more dangerous Subject of Contention, which I mut not leave unnoticed.

Among the Paions which ruffle the Heart of Man, there is one of a hot and impetuous Nature, which renders the Sexes neceary to each other; a terrible Paion which depies all Dangers, bears down all Obtacles, and which in its Tranports eems proper to detroy the human Species which it is detined to preerve. What mut become of Men abandoned to this lawles and brutal Rage, without Modety, without Shame, and every Day diputing the Objects of their Paion at the Expence of their Blood?