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 air; his first step out of which, as Hamlet truly observes, is into his grave. His first dwellings, of course, were the hollows of trees and rocks: in process of time he began to build: thence grew villages; thence grew cities: luxury, oppression, poverty, misery, and disease kept pace with the progress of his pretended improvements, till, from a free, strong, healthy, peaceful animal, he has become a weak, distempered, cruel, carnivorous slave.

Your doctrine is orthodox, in so far as you assert, that the original man was not encumbered with clothes, and that he lived in the open air: but as to the faculty of speech, that it is certain he had, for the authority of Moses