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 picture of the State of Nature, how much even natural Inequality falls hort in this State of that Reality and Influence which our Writers acribe to it.

In Fact, we may eaily perceive that among the Differences, which ditinguih Men, everal pas for natural, which are merely the Work of Habit and the different Kinds of Life adopted by Men living in a ocial Way. Thus a robut or delicate Contitution, and the Strength and Weaknes which depend on it, are oftener produced by the hardy or effeminate Manner in which a Man has been brought up, than by the primitive Contitution of his Body. It is the ame thus in Regard to the Forces of the Mind; and Education not only produces a Difference between thoe Minds which are cultivated and thoe which are not, but even increaes that which is found among the firt in proportion