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 foreaw nor reolved to be the Author of. 'Tis evident that Mr. Locke uppoes the very thing in quetion: For we are not enquiring why Man hould continue to live with the Woman after her Delivery, but why he hould continue to attach himelf to her after Conception. The Appetite atisfied, Man no longer tands in need of any particular Woman, nor the Woman of any particular Man. The Man no longer troubles his Head about what has happened; perhaps he has not the leat Notion of what mut follow. One goes this Way, the other that, and there is little Reaon to think that at the End of nine Months they hould remember ever to have known each other: For this kind of Remembrance, by which one Individual gives the Preference to another for the Act of Generation, requires, as I have proved in the Text, a greater Degree of Improvement or Corruption in the Human Undertanding, than Man can be uppoed to have attained in the State of Animality we here peak of. Another Woman therefore may erve to atisfy the new Deires of the Man full as well as the one he has already known; and another Man in like Manner atisfy