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 Face of Nature, and meaured with his Eyes the vat Extent of the Heavens.

If I trip this Being, thus contituted, of all the upernatural Gifts which he may have received, and of all the artificial Faculties, which he could not have acquired but by low Degrees; if I conider him, in a word, uch as he mut have iued from the Hands of Nature; I ee an Animal les trong than ome, and les active than others, but, upon the whole, the mot advantageouly organized of any: I ee him atisfying the calls of Hunger under the firt Oak, and thoe of Thirt at the firt Rivulet; I ee him laying himelf down to leep at the Foot of the ame Tree, that afforded him his Meal; and behold, this done, all his Wants are completely upplied.

The Earth left to its own natural Fertility (4) and covered with immene Woods, that