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HAP. IX. 



Of the Difference hctivixt the Strength of Mind of a Savage and the 

 Knotvledge of a Civilized Man in Arts and Sciefices. — Difference 

 • hctvuixt the Natural Sagacity of a Savage^ and of a Civilized Man, 

 — Of the Faculty of Imitation belonging to Man : — All his Arts 

 learned in that Way. — A 'wonderful Exafnple of it in Children 

 learning to fpeak. — The Idea of the Fair and Handfome not to 

 be found at all in the mere Natural Man, — // appears in the 

 Firf Ages of Civility. — Examples of it. — Men in the Natural 

 State cannot multiply much. — Reafons for this : — Firft, PVant of 

 Proviftons : — Secondly, The Animal docs not breed fo fafl in 

 that State. — This proved by the Analogy of other Animals^ 

 fuch as Cattle^ T)ogs, and Szvine — Re of on for this^ the unnatural 



Warmth of the Houfed Life. — But the Breed not fo good Nature 



has provided againfl the Country being overflocked vuith any Species 

 of Animals in three feveral Ways :—Y\v^, The Females not produ- 

 cing often : — Secondly, Not many at a Birth : — Thirdly, Alorc 

 Males than Females ; — this laft mojl obfervahle in the Locujls in 

 Spain and Africa. — The larger Animals do not multiply fo much as 

 the leffer. — Man^ among the larger Animals. — Means 7 fed by Na- 

 ture Jo prevent his too great Multiplication : — More Males in 

 our Species produced in the Natural State than Females. — 

 Cuflom in the Country of Thibet^ accounted for. — The Or an Outans, 

 Patagoniajis^ and Neiv Hollanders^ do not increafe much. — A Coun- 

 try inhabited by Men in the Natural State is not underflocked any 

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