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 Vengeance of Hubands every Day produce Duels, Murders, and even wore Crimes; where the Duty of an eternal Fidelity erves only to propagate Adultery; and the very Laws of Continence and Honour necearily contribute to increae Diolutenes, and multiply Abortions.

Let us conclude that avage Man, wandering about in the Forets, without Indutry, without Speech, without any fixed Reidence, an equal Stranger to War and every ocial Connection, without tanding in any hape in need of his Fellows, as well as without any Deire of hurting them, and perhaps even without ever ditinguihing them individually one from the other, ubject to few Paions, and finding in himelf all he wants, let us, I ay, conclude that avage Man thus circumtanced had no Knowledge or Sentiment but uch as are proper to that Condition, that he was alone enible of his real