CONTENTS. 



cipal, and the Difference betwixt the... two.— The wonderful Conneilion of all the 

 three inferior Principles with the higheft. — The Difference betwixt all the four 

 Principles recapitulated. —The Tetra^yi of the Pythagoreans different from the TV; - 

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BOOK IL 



Of the Animal Part of thaCompofition of Man.- 



C H A P. I. 



The Animal Part of us is befl feen v/hen we are only Animals. — Then Man is in his 

 Natural State. — Dtfinition of that State. — The Queflion, Whether fuch a State 

 ever did exifl ? — This State tabe fee« in our Children. — What is true of Indivi- 

 duals may be fuppofed to be true of the whole Speci^es. — All the Arts not at once 



invented. Clothes not worn by fome Nations at this Day— rot by the Oran 



Outang— the Inhabitants of New Holland, —nor by the Inhabitants of thi-s Country 

 of old. — The Patagonians and Efquimaux wear very few. — The Benefit of Cold : — 

 of Air and Exercife, in hot Countries. — Of Houfes. — The New Hollanders have 

 none. — No necefTity for them in the cold efl Climates, proved by Examples- of 

 Men yet living. — The Scythians had no Floufes. — A particular Account of that 

 People. — Of the Ufe of Fire. — The Inhabitants of the Ladrone Iflands had it not— 

 nor the antient Greeks.— Refleftions irpon the Ufe of Fire. — Of the Ufe of Speech. — 

 Of the Oran Outang mentioned in the Firft Volume of the Origin of Language. — 

 Additional Circumflances concerning him. — Other Examples of Men in the Natu- 

 ral State.— Men in that State can carry on a joint Bufinefs. — This proved by Ana- 

 logy from other Animals.— The Cafe of Peter the jyUd Boy.— AW Nations, fome 

 time or other, in the natural State.— The Age of a Nation to be counted from 

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C H A P. II. 



The Body of Man fuited to his Mind ; — fuperior, upon the whole, to that of any 

 other Animal.— Of the acquired Bodily Faculties of M:in.—Siuimmif/g one of 

 ihcfe;— alfo Jl^alklng ereS.—Th'xs proved by Fails.— Thefe acquired Faculties 

 much improved by the Senfe of Honour.— Comparifon betwixt the Oran Outang and 



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