A N T I E N T 



METAPHYSICS. 



BOOK L 



Comparifon of the Natural and Civilifed States of 

 Man, with Refped to his Body and Animal Life. 



C H A P. L 



The progrefs of Man from the Natural Lfe to the Civilifed^ the great* 

 efl that he has undergone, — The dlffcrcncey therefore^ betwixt thofe 

 two Lives to be carefully attended to, — A progrefs of Man in the 

 Natural State as ivell as in the Civilifed. — At frf he is a mere 

 Animal^ with only the capacity of Intelled, — He is then not facial^ 

 but f duns the Society of other Men, '^T his the cafe of a folitary Sa- 

 vage lately feen in the Pyrenees, — The reafon of this is, that it is 

 the lfe of IntelleEi which makes a man Social. — The next fep in the 

 Natural Life, was Herding, — But fill men continued to feed upon 

 the natural fruits of the earth,— though, by the neccffitics of life, 

 they may have been compelled to kill beafs and catch ffh, — But they 

 had no art of Hunting or Fifiing. — In this fate of the Natural Life 

 is the Ourang Outaug, — He lives entirely upon the Natural Fruits of 

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