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neceflary arts, till at laft he forms civil focieties ; in which men, 

 joining their wits together, by the coiimunicauon of fpeech invent- 

 ed all the neceflary arts, then arts of convenience and pleafure, and, 

 laft of all, fciences. Now, it is only by arts and fciences, as I have 

 faid in more than one place, that man can make anv progrefs, 

 in this life, towards regaining the ftaie from which he fell. 



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