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 Savage Man, when he has dined, is at Peace with the whole Creation, and the Friend of all his Fellows. Does a Dipute ometimes happen about a Meal? He eldom comes to Blows without having firt compared the Difficulty of conquering with that of finding a Supply in ome other Place; and, as Pride has no Share in the Squabble, it ends in a few Cuffs; the Conqueror eats, the Conquered retires to eek his Fortune elewhere, and all is quiet again. But with Man in Society the Cae is quite different; in the firt place, Necearies are to be provided, and then Superfluities; Delicacies follow, and then immene Riches, and then Subjects, and then Slaves. He does not enjoy the leat Relaxation; what is mot extraordinary, the les natural and preing are his Wants, the more headtrong his Paions become, and what is till wore, the greater is his Power of atisfying them; o that after a long Series of Properity, after having wallowed up immene Treaures and ruined Thouands, our Hero cloes the Scene by cutting every Throat, 'till he at lat finds himelf ole Mater of an empty Univere. Such is in Miniature the Moral Table, if not of