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 Propenity, quite void of any thing like pure Love or Affection, produced nothing but an Act that was merely Animal. The preent Heat once allayed, the Sexes took no further Notice of each other, and even the Child ceaed to have any Tie in his Mother, the Moment he ceaed to want her Aitance.

Such was the Condition of Infant Man; uch was the Life of an Animal confined at firt to pure Senations, and o far from harbouring any Thought of forcing her Gifts from Nature, that he carcely availed himelf of thoe which he offered to him of her own accord. But Difficulties oon aroe, and there was a Neceity for learning how to urmount them: the Height of ome Trees, which prevented his reaching their Fruits; the Competition of other Animals equally fond of the ame Fruits; the Fiercenes of many that even aimed at his Life; thee were o many