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 Pag. 40.

(11.) This appears to me as clear as Day-Light, and I cannot conceive whence our Philoophers can derive all the Paions they attribute to natural Man. Except the bare phyical Necearies, which Nature herelf requires, all our other Wants are merely the Effects of Habit, before which they were no Wants, or of our inordinate Cravings, but we don't crave for that which we are not in a Condition to know. Hence it follows that as avage Man longs for nothing but what he knows, and knows nothing but what he actually poees or can eaily acquire, nothing can be o calm as his Soul, or o confined as his Undertanding.

Pag. 50.

(12.) I find in Locke's Civil Government an Objection, which appears to me too pecious to be here diembled. "The End, ays this Philoopher, of Conjunction between Male