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C HAP. VI. 



Of the progrefs of man from a natural fate y to a fate of civility and 

 arts. — Such a progrefs ahfolutely neceffary. — The frfl Jlep of this 

 progrefs ivas living in herds. — Of the tnotives "which induced men 

 to live in that ivay. — Animals divided, by Arifotle, into gregarious 

 and not gregarious ; — and into political and not political. — Man of 

 the mixed kind — both gregarious and folitary ; political and not po- 

 litical. — Man not induced to ajfociate by injlin6ly or any particular 

 attachment to his fpecies — proved that he has no fuch attachment. 

 — It ivas therefore neceffity or convenience that made him ajfociate, 



■ — This the cafe of the Ourang Outang Men in that fate lived 



like brutes, though they ivere both gregarious and political, — j&x- 

 amples of other animals living in that ivay. — That ivay of living 

 far removed from a fate of civility and arts. — Language abfolutely 

 necejfary to form fuch a fate.— Man nmf have formed ideas before 

 he can have the ufe of fpeech. — Language a ivonderful art, but the 

 formation of ideas more ivonderful. — The formation of ideas our 

 frfl fep from the mere animal life. — This is a mofl difficult fep^ 

 being from nature, ivh^re all things are tnixed ivith all. — The pro- 

 grefs of ideas, from the loivef fpecies to the highef genus, — We 

 difcover differer.cci of things, and divide as ivell as unite. — Of the 

 Categories, by ivhich the iJi>hole things in the Univerfe are reduced 

 to cei'tain claffcs. — This the greatefl difcovery of philofophy that 

 ever ivas made. — But the human mind goes beyo7id the Categories, 

 and dif overs ivhat coutaiiis the Categories, and every thing in the 

 Univerfe. — This progrefs mofl ivonderful, from ivhat is loivef in 

 mature to ix;hat is hi'^hefl. — Language neceffary for that progrefs. 

 — Therefore it is the parent art of all aits and Jcicnces. 



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