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v:ould have thofe confider, who are offended with my fuppofing that 

 Man was ever in the mere animal ftate, and once as void of intel- 

 lect as any Brute. 



I will only add further, that, in an age, in which natural hiftory 

 has been fo much cultivated, it is furprifing that fo little inquiry has 

 been made concerning the natural hiftory of our own fpecies, which, 

 confidered in contradiflindion to his civil hiftory, is nothing elfe 

 but an account of his natural ftate. Now, before Roufleau, it does 

 not appear to me that any modern author ever dreamed that fuch a 

 ftate did exift, or could exift. 



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