54 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS, Boak L 



CHAP. V. 



Vf the chamber of man in bis natural Jlate^—Not knoivn ivhat his 

 charaShr ivas in the jirjl Jlage of that fate, ivhen he ivas a qua- 

 druptd ; — but from -what ive knoiv of the Ourang Outang, man in 

 the fecond ftage of his progreffion^ is a facial, friendly animal^ and 

 capable of tntelled and fcience. — To judge of a man in the civi- 

 lized fate, after he has got the ufe of language, a dijlinftion is to 

 be made betxvixt thofe ivho live by hunting, and thofe ivho fubfifi 

 upon the fruits of the earth.-— The inhabitants of the Peleiv I/lands 

 a fpecimm of ivhat men are in the firf Jlate of civilization, and 

 before they are hunters. — The zurong confru^ion given by fome 

 men to the behaviour of ths inhabitants of the Peleiv I/lands to- 

 ivards us.— The behaviour of the Nciv Zealanders as noble and 



. generous as that of the Peleiv men^ — A remarkable in/lance oj their 



, behaviour given, 



HAVING laid fo much of the body of man In his natural ftate, 

 I think it will be proper to fay fomething of his mind. It 

 is by mind, chiefly, as Ariftotle has obferved, that the feveral fpeciefes 

 of animals are diflinguifhed from one another. And the feveral 

 ftates of an animal, of fuch wonderful progrefTion as man, muft be 

 marked by a great difference of charader or difpofitioa of mind. 



AVhat the mind of man was, while he was a quadruped, we can- 

 not, from fad or experience, determine with any certainty, as fo 



few 



