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 no Hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every Step Food and Shelter to every Species of Animals. Men, dipered among them, oberve and imitate their Indutry, and thus rie to the intinct of Beats; with this Advantage, that, whereas every Species of Beats is confined to one peculiar Intinct, Man, who perhaps has not any that particularly belongs to him, appropriates to himelf thoe of all other Animals, and lives equally upon mot of the different Aliments, (5) which they only divide among themelves; a circumtance which qualifies him to find his Subitence, with more Eae than any of them.

Men, accutomed from their Infancy to the Inclemency of the Weather, and to the Rigour of the different Seaons; inured to Fatigue, and obliged to defend, naked and without Arms, their Life and their Prey againt the other wild Inhabitants of the Foret, or at leat to avoid their