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Sect. ' Minds, hurried them on through a Maze of III. ' Ignorance, and to accomplish its Ends used c"^r*J ' nothing but the most pernicious of all Me' thods, open Violence. (^Invention. It is of such Ages that old Eschylus fays, p 43 (') ^n earb Times, Menfeeing, saw in vain ; Hearing, they heard not ; but like empty Forms Offleeting Dreams, they dragg'd their vagrant Life, By chance, thro' Good and Bad.—— But nothing can be more remarkable than the Character given of the firfi Mortals by the acutest of the Philosophers, which at the same time preserves the Tradition concerning the 'Origin of the human Race. 43. sip 4?- 0) * whether produced from the Earth, or escaped ' from some general Desolation, were all much Aristotle's Politic B. 2.
 * I t i s probable, says he, that thefirst Men,
 * of the same kind ; low, vulgar People, with* out Understanding ; in the same way as we
 * commonly characterize those we call sprung
 * from the Earth:





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