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 one after another, it was not formed all at once in the Human Mind: Men mut have made a great Progres; they mut have acquired a great tock of Indutry and Knowledge, and tranmitted and increaed it from Age to Age before they could arrive at this lat Term of the State of Nature. Let us therefore take up things a little higher, and collect into one Point of View, and in their mot natural Order, this low Succeion of Events and mental Improvements.

The firt Sentiment of Man was that of his Exitence, his firt Care that of preerving it. The Productions of the Earth yielded him all the Aitance he required, Intinct prompted him to make ue of them. Among the various Appetites, which made him at different Times experience different Modes of Exitence, there was one that excited him to perpetuate his Species; and this blind