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H A R VII. 



Recapitulation of%vhat has been [aid of the Body of the Natural Alan — 

 No increafe of Size in the Civilized State. — In that State^ Man, by 

 yirt, may excel in certain Exercifes. — Of the Mind of the Natural 

 Man ; — the fame ivith the mere Animal Mind. —The Pozvers of 

 that Mind conftdered. — Man more perfecl in his Animal Nature 

 than other Animals. — Of the Tranquility of his Mind in that State. 

 ~0f the Golden Age in Greece and Italy. —This State 7iot a State 

 of p erf e SI Felicity^ the IntelleSlual Pleafures being ivanting. — 

 Gymnofophifs in India in a more happy State, 



IN the preceding Chapter, I think, I have fhown, that Man, Ji- 

 ving in the natural ftate, is healthier, longer lived, ftronger 

 and larger of body, than the fame animal living in a flate of arts 

 and civility. I fay the fame animal ; for I do not maintain that all 

 men in the natural ftate are as big as the Pongo, or great Oran Ou- 

 tan of Angola, or as the Patagonian ; but, on the contrary, I hold, 

 that there is by nature as great a difference In fize in our fpecies, as 

 there is among other animals, and particularly among dogs ; for it 

 would be moft extraordinary, if, in the moft various animal upon 

 this earth, there was not found the common variety of great and 

 fmall. The natural man, therefore, I fay, is of the iize of ihat 

 race of men to which he belongs ; and I fay further, that, if he 



has 



