CONTENTS. 



•South America or the Weft India Iflands, and North America. — The Indians of 

 Nortii America the bcft living Example of what Men are in the Firft Ages of So- 

 ciety. A particular Account of them. — Of the Morlacchiy a People of Dalmatia. 



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CHAP. IX. 



Of the DiiTcrence betwixt the Strength of Mind of a Savage and the Knowledge of a 

 Civilized Man in Arts and Sciences. — Difference betwixt the Natural Sagacity of 

 a Savage, and of a Civilized Man. — Of the Faculty of Imitation belonging to Man : 

 •—AH his Arts learned in that Way. — A wonderful Example of it in Children learn- 

 inty to rpeak. — The Idea of the Fair and Handfome not to be found at ail in 'the 

 mere Natural Man. — It appears in the Firft Ages of Civility. — Examples of it.— 

 Men in the Natural State cannot multiply much.— .Rea-Oons for this : — Tirji^ Want 

 of Provifions : — Secondly^ The Animal does not breed fo faft in that State. — This 

 proved by the Analogy of other Animals, fuch as Cattle, Dogs, and Swine. — 

 Reafon for this, the unnatural Warmth of the Houfed Life. — But the Breed not (o 

 good .-^Nature has provided againft the Country being overftocked with any Species 

 of Animals in three feveralWays: — Firji, Tho. Females not producing often : — 

 Secondly^ Not many at a Birth : — Thirdly, More Males than Females j— this laft 

 moft obfervable in the Locufts in Spain and Africa. — The larger Animals do not 

 multiply fo much as the lefTer. — Man, among the larger Animals. — Means ufed by 

 Nature to prevent his too great Multiplication : — iMore Males in our Species pro- 

 duced in the Natural State than Females. — Caftom in the Country of Thibet, ac- 

 counted for. — The Oran Outangs, Patagonians, and New Hollanders, do not in- 

 creafe much. — A Country inhabited by Men in the Natural State is not under- 

 flocked any more than overftocked. — In civilized Countries the Inhabitants multiply 

 ,yery much fafter in the Firft Ages of Civility, p. 217 



C HAP. X. 



In the Natural State a Difference of Individuals, as well as in the Civilized State. — 

 All Men born with Geniufes for different Things. — The Wifdom of fomc aniient 

 Governments in claffing Men according to ti^efe Differences. — Difference of Bodies 

 in the Natural State. — The fame Difference obferved in other Animals in that 

 State. — Difference of Minds alfo in the Natural State ; — but the Difi'erence not fo 



obfervable 



