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dy cannot be fo great. But ftlll there muft be a difference ; for 

 thofe who have ftudied Nature know, that the vaiiety of Nature is. 

 fuch, that there is not any one individual of any kind perfedly Hke 

 another, not even two leaves of the fame tree. 



This reafoning is fupported by what we fee In the reft of the 

 animal creation j and, as I obferved before, in the reafoning con- 

 cerning Man as an animal merely, this argument from analogy ap- 

 pears to be perfectly conclufive. Now, we fee a very great differ- 

 ence in the fame kinds of animals even in the wild ftate, not only 

 in different countries, but in the fame country. There are lions and 

 tygers, much fuperior, in fize and flrength and tiercenefs, to others :. 

 The Calydonian boar, who killed fo many of the noble youth of 

 Greece, one of whoie teeth was ftill preferved in the time of 

 Paufanias *, was certainly of much greater ftrength and fize than 

 any other boar in that part of the country : And every fportfmari' 

 among us will tell you that there is a great difference in the fize and 

 ftrength of hares and foxes. 



As to the Mind of Man in the natural ftate, though I maintain Ic 

 to be a fubftance diftin<ft from the body, I can fee no reafon why the 

 variety of Nature fhould not take place in it, as well as in the other 

 fubftance of which Man is compofed ; and, therefore, why the 

 Minds of men fliould not be as different as their Bodies, even in the 

 natural ftate. In that ftate, indeed, the difference cannot appear fo 



much 



• Origin and Progrefs of Language, Vol. i. p. 264. Second Edit. Moreof thefe 

 teeth were to be feen, as Procopius fays, in a town of Italy, which he czWs Bene^ 

 venty being left there by Diomede, to whofe uncle Meleager they belonged. They 

 were, fays he, of the figure of a half moon, and not lefs than three fpithamae 

 that is, twenty.feven inches, in circumference. Procopius de Bello Gothico, Lib. u . 

 Cap. XV. 



