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 how to ditinguih between the different Ranks of Exitence, by attributing to his Species the firt Rank among Animals in general, he prepared himelf at a Ditance to pretend to it as an Individual among thoe of his own Species in particular.

Tho' other Men were not to him what they are to us, and he had carce more Intercoure with them than with other Animals, they were not overlooked in his Obervations. The Conformities, which in time he might dicover between them, and between himelf and his Female, made him judge of thoe he did not perceive; and eeing that they all behaved as himelf would have done in imilar Circumtances, he concluded that their manner of thinking and willing was quite conformable to his own; and this important Truth, when once engraved deeply on his Mind, made him follow, by a Preentiment as ure as any