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 this Deire, and fixes it upon a particular Object to the Excluion of all others, or at leat gives it a greater Degree of Energy for this preferred Object. Now it is eay to perceive that the moral Part of Love is a factitious Sentiment, engendered by Society, and cried up by the Women with great Care and Addres in order to etablih their Empire, and ecure Command to that Sex which ought to obey. This Sentiment, being founded on certain Notions of Beauty and Merit which a Savage is not capable of having, and upon Comparions which he is not capable of making, can carcely exit in him: for as his Mind was never in a Condition to form abtract Ideas of Regularity and Proportion, neither is his Heart uceptible of Sentiments of Admiration and Love, which, even without our perceiving it, are produced by our Application of thee Ideas; he litens olely to