CONTENTS. 



obfervable as In the Civilized. — This Theory fupported by the Analogy of other 

 Animals, particularly of Horfes. — Of the Horfes of noble Families in Arabia. — 

 Whether the different Qualities of Body and Mind go to the Race. — With 

 refpecl to the Body, the Q^ialities of it go to the Race, both among civilized 

 Men and Savages. — Curious Fadl related by Hippocrates. — A Difference of Mind 

 alfo both in the Natural and Civilized State. — This an univerfal Lav/ of Nature 

 in all the Animal Race, Page 233 



CHAP. XI. 



Of the Differences of Nations, Families, and Individuals. — This Difference owing to 

 Mind, and not to be afcribed to Climate. — With refpeiS to the Body, Men very 

 different in the fame Climates : — Alfo with refpe£l to the Mind. — The Soil, the 

 Water, or the Food, not the Caufe of thefe Differences : — This proved by the Dif- 

 ference of Families where all thofe are the fame. — The ultimate Caufe of this Dif- 

 ference is the Will of God, for Reafons to be explained hereafter, p. 242 



CHAP. XII. 



The feveral Varieties of the Human Species. — Some acknowledged — others doubted 

 of, or dilbelieved. — i/?, The Men with Tails — Men with one Leg greater than 

 another. — Men with but one Leg : — This difbelieved by Strabo. — Incredulity about 

 Antieni Natural Hiftory as well as Civil, began as early as the Days of Scrabo and 

 Juvenal. - Men wiih Eyes in their Breads. — Authority of Sr. Auguftine for this 

 Fd&. — Men with one Eye in their Forehead, proved by the fame Authority. — The 

 Exiftence alfo of Mermaids, orS.aM.n, proved by concurring Teftimonies, An- 

 tient as well as Modern. — Ariftotle's Maxim, that every Thing which can exift 

 does exift.— -This explained, and the Reafon of it given. p. 248 



CHAP. XIII. 



To inquire how the natural State began, not the Subje£l of this Volume. — Plato does 

 not carry his State of Nature fo far back as the Auth.or docs. — The Men in Plato's 

 Natural State lived in the Cyclopean M inner, upon Tops of Hills. — In all Coun- 

 tries, biforc Civil Govcrnaicnt waS well eflablifhed, Men appear to have lived in 

 that Way.— Monuments of tins ytt remaining in Scotland. — Apology for dwelling 

 fo long upon the State of Nature. — It is the Natural HiHory of Man, as diilin- 

 guiflied from his Civil Hiflory, p. 267 



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