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 the Woman's, uppoing her ubject to the ame Appetite during her Pregnancy, a thing which may be reaonably doubted. But if in a State of Nature, the Woman, when he has conceived, no longer feels the Paion of Love, the Obtacle to her aociating with Men becomes till greater, ince he no longer has any Occaion for the Man by whom he is pregnant, or any other. There is therefore no Reaon on the Man's Side, for his coveting the ame Woman, nor on the Woman's for her coveting the ame Man. Locke's Argument therefore falls to the Ground, and all the Logick of this PhiopherPhilosopher [sic] has not ecured him from the Mitake committed by Hobbes and others. They had to explain a Fact in the State of Nature, that is in a State in which every Man lived by himelf without any Connection with other Men, and no one Man had any Motives to aociate with any other, nor perhaps, which is till wore, Men in general to herd together; and it never came into their Heads to look back beyond the Times of Society, that is to ay, thoe Times in which Men had always Motives for herding together, and in which one Man has often Motives for aociating with this or that particular Man, this or that particular Woman.