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 Experiments would be requiite, which auredly Mr. Locke had not made, and which no one is in a Condition to make. The continual Cohabitation of Huband and Wife is o near an Occaion for the former to expoe herelf to a new Pregnancy, that it is hardly probable a fortuitous Concoure, or a mere Blaze of Paion hould produce as frequent Effects in a pure State of Nature, as in that of conjugal Society; a Tardines, which would contribute perhaps to render the Children more robut, and which beides might be made up by the Power of conceiving being extended to a more advanced Age with Women, who had not o much abued it in their younger Days. In regard to Children, there are many Reaons for believing that their Power and Organs develop themelves among us later than they did in the primitive State of which I peak. The original Weaknes which they derive from the Contitution of their Parents, the Care taken to fold up, train and cramp all their Members, the Softnes in which they are reared, perhaps too the Ue of another Woman's Milk, every thing oppoes and checks in them the firt Operations of Nature. The