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 has been in, and the Progrees he has made, have added to, or changed in, his primitive Condition. The human Soul, like the Statue of Glaucus which Time, the Sea and Storms had o much disfigured that it reembled a wild Beat more than a God, the human Soul, I ay, altered in the Boom of Society by the perpetual Succeion of a thouand Caues, by the Acceion of numberles Dicoveries and Errors, by the Changes that have happened in the Contitution of urrounding Bodies, by the perpetual jarring of its own Paions, has in a manner lot o much of its original Appearance as to be carce ditinguihable; and we no longer perceive in it, intead of a Being always acting from certain and invariable Principles, intead of that heavenly and majetic Simplicity which its Author had impreed upon it, but the hocking Contrat of Paion that thinks it reaons, and a delirious Undertanding.