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 Nothing therefore can be more evident, than that it is Society alone, which has added even to Love itelf as well as to all the other Paions, that impetuous Ardour, which o often renders it fatal to Mankind; and it is o much the more ridiculous to repreent Savages contantly murdering each other to glut their Brutality, as this Opinion is diametrically oppoite to Experience, and the Carribeans, the People in the World who have as yet deviated leat from the State of Nature, are to all Intents and Purpoes the mot peaceable in their Amours, and the leat ubject to Jealouy, tho' they live in a burning Climate which eems always to add coniderably to the Activity of thee Paions.

As to the Inductions which may be drawn, in repect to everal Species of Animals, from the Battles of the Males, who in all Seaons cover our Poultry