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 but none will find it an eay Matter to get to the end of it. For it is no uch eay tak to ditinguih between what is natural, and what is artificial in the actual Contitution of Man, and to make one's elf well acquainted with a State which, if ever it did, does not now, and in all probability never will exit, and of which, notwithtanding, it is abolutely neceary to have jut Notions to judge properly of our preent State. Nay, a Man mut be more a Philoopher than mot people think to take upon him to determine exactly, what Precautions are requiite to make olid Obervations upon this Subject; and, in my Opinion, a good Solution of the following Problem would not be unworthy of the AritotlesAriſtoles [sic] and Plinies of our Age: What Experiments are requiite to know Man as contituted by Nature, and which are the bet Methods of making thee Experiments in the boom of Society? For my own Part, I am o far from pretending to olve this Problem,