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CONTENTS. 



BOOK I. 



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Gompanfon of the Natural and Civilifed States of Man, with Ref- 

 ped to his Body and Animal Life. 



C H A P I. 



The progrefs of Man from the Natural Life to the Civilifed, the greateft that he has 

 undergone. — The difference, therefore, betwixt thofe two Lives to be carefully at- 

 tended to. — A progrefs of Man in the Matural State as well as in the Civilil'ed. At 



firft he is a mere 4>nimil, with only the capacity of Intelle£t. — Hr is then not focial 

 but fliuns the Societv of other Men — This the cafe of a folitary Savage lately feen 

 in the Pyrenees — The reafon of this is, th^t it is the ufe of Intellect which Hiakes a 

 man Social. — The next ftep. in the Natural L-.fe, was Herding But (till me--- con- 

 tinued to feed upon the natural fruits of the earth, — though, by the nectffirles of 

 life, they may have been compelled fo kill beafts and catch filh. — i3ut they had no 

 art of Hunting or Fifhing.— In this ftate of the Natural Life is the Ourang Ojcang. 

 — He lives entirely upon the Natural Fruits of the Earth — is how;;ver very big and 

 ftrong. — The moft remarkable people living in the Natural State, are the people of 

 the Ladrone iflmds — A particular account of them given by Martini rre in his Dic- 

 tion iry, taken from a hiftory of them written by Father Gaubin a healthy long 



lived people— and of great lize and llrength of body, — Another people living in the 



natural way, are the inhabitants of North Van Diemens Lmd in N.- v HjilanJ 



Tl-ey are the moft indigent people that have yet been difcovered. The Earth pro- 

 duces no fruit that Man can live upon. — They live therefore upon (hell- fi h, that 

 they gather upon the fands or in creeks and bays at 'low w.iter. — Th.-y hv/^ no ha- 

 bitations but in the trunks of trees, which they holiovv, and matces lirei m them lor 



a 2 r?afling, 



