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 their Nature; how it comes to pas, that at the long run our Wants and our Pleaures change Objects; that, original Man vanihing by degrees, Society no longer offers to our Inpection but an aemblage of artificial Men and factitious Paions, which are the Work of all thee new Relations, and have no Foundation in Nature. Reflection teaches us nothing on that Head, but what Experience perfectly confirms. Savage Man and civilized Man differ o much at bottom in point of Inclinations and Paions, that what contitutes the upreme Happines of the one would reduce the other to depair. The firt ighs for nothing but Repoe and Liberty; he deires only to live, and to be exempt from Labour; nay, the Ataraxy of the mot confirmed Stoic falls hort of his conummate Indifference for every other Object. On the contrary, the Citizen always in Motion, is perpetually weating and toiling, and racking his Brains to find