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 Matters, and that they rather erve to account for Facts which exit than to acertain the real Exitence of thee Facts. Now this is the kind of Proof made ue of by Mr. Locke in the Paage I have cited; for though it may be the Interet of the Human Species, that the Union between Man and Woman hould be permanent, it does not follow that uch an Union was etablihed by Nature; otherwie Nature mut be allowed to have likewie intituted Civil Society, Arts, Commerce, and every thing ele pretended to be ueful to Mankind.

2.(2.) [sic] I don't know where Mr. Locke has learned, that among Animals of Prey the Society between Male and Female lats longer than among thoe who live upon Gras, and that one aits the other in rearing their young ones: For we don't find that the Dog, the Cat, the Bear, or the Wolf how greater Regard to their Females than the Hore, the Ram, the Bull, the Stag, and all other Quadrupeds do to theirs. On the contrary, it eems that, if the Aitance of the Male was neceary to the Female for the