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 But that ſuch a ſtate did exiſt, the concording voice of various tradition offers a convincing proof; and the luſt of knowledge is the fatal cauſe, to which the indigenous tale, of every country, attributes the loſs of paradiſe and the fall of man (18). 'Twas this dire curioſity that prompted Pandora to pry into the fatal box: this was the ſubtle ſerpent which prevailed on Eve to taſte the tree of knowledge, and hence, from the fields of innocence, were expelled the human race, in conſequence Rh