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 almot his only Concern, he mut exercie thoe Faculties mot, which are mot erviceable in attacking and in defending, whether to ubdue his Prey, or to prevent his becoming that of other Animals: thoe Organs, on the contrary, which Softnes and Senuality can alone improve, mut remain in a State of Rudenes, utterly incompatible with all manner of Delicacy; and as his Senes are divided on this Point, his Touch and his Tate mut be extremely coare and blunt; his Sight, his Hearing, and his Smelling equally ubtile: uch is the animal State in general, and accordingly, if we may believe Travellers, it is that of mot Savage Nations. We mut not therefore be urpried, that the Hottentots of the Cape of Good Hope, ditinguih with their naked Eyes Ships on the Ocean, at as great a Ditance as the Dutch can dicern them with their Glaes; nor that the Savages of America hould have tracked the Spaniards