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 Circumtances, which obliged him to apply to bodily Exercie. There was a Neceity for becoming active, wift-footed, and turdy in Battle. The natural Arms, which are Stones and the Branches of Trees, oon offered themelves to his Aitance. He learned to urmount the Obtacles of Nature, to contend in cae of Neceity with other Animals, to dipute his Subitence even with other Men, or indemnify himelf for the Los of whatever he found himelf obliged to part with to the tronget.

In Proportion as the Human Species grew more numerous, and extended itelf, its Pains likewie multiplied and increaed. The Difference of Soils, Climates and Seaons, might have forced Men to oberve ome Difference in their Way of living. Bad Harvets, long and evere Winters, and corching Summers which parched up all the Fruits of the Earth, required