24 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



BOOK II. 



Of the Animal Part of the Compofition of Man. 



CHAP T^^E^ R L 



'The j^nimal Part of us is hejl feen ivhen ive are only Animals. — Then 

 Man is in his Natural State.— -Definition of that State. ^The ^ue- 

 fiion, Whether fuch a State e'uer did exifi ? — This State to be feen 

 in our Chihhen.—What is true of Indi'uiduals may befuppofed to be 

 true of the -whole Species. — All the Arts not at once indented. — 

 Cloaths not uuorn by fome Nations at this Day — 7iot by the Or an 

 Out an — the Inhabitants of Neiv Holland^ — nor by the Inhabitants of 

 this Country of old. — The Patagonians and Efciuimaux ivear -very 

 feiv. — The Benefit of Cold -.-^ of Air and Exercife^ in hot Coun- 

 tries — Of Honfes — The Neiv Hollanders ha've none. — No neceffity 

 for them in the coldefi Climates.^ pro'ved by Examples of Men yet 

 living. — The Scythians had no Houfes. — A particular Account of 

 that People. — Of the Ufe of Fire. — The Inhabitants of the Ladrone 

 Iflands had it not — nor the antient Greeks. — Refletiions upon the 

 Ufe of Fire. — Of the Ufe of Speech. — Of the Or an Out an mentioned 

 in the Firfi Volume of the Origin of Language. — Additional Circuin- 

 (lances concerning him. — Other Examples of Men in the Natural 

 State. — Men in that State can carry on a joint Bufnefs. — This 

 pro^ved by Analogy from other Animals. The Cafe of Peter the 



wild 



