Chap. IX. ANTTENT METAPHYSICS. 





flies with two or wath four wings, upon which a French author, as 

 I have faid *, has written a volume. 



And when we add to this, all the variety that is produced in the 

 feveral parts of this compofition, by the different polities and con- 

 ftitutions of government, as I have obferved, in tlie feveral na- 

 tions, and the different cuftoms and manners thereby produced, to- 

 gether with the many different occupations of men, inftead of won- 

 dering at his being fo various an animal, it would be a thing fo w^on- 

 dcrful, that it could not be believed, if he were not an animal as 

 various as can well be imagined. 



And here I conclude the hiftory of this moft various animal Man 

 whom I have traced through the feveral ftates, in w^hich he has ap- 

 peared on this earth ; firft as a mere brute, living in a favao-e and a 

 folitary fl:ate, of which I have given fome inftances that have lately 

 been difcovered ; then as a herding animal, but without arts not even 

 with the art of fpeech, of which the Orang Outang is a memorable 

 example ; then in the family ftate, of which our facred books fur- 

 nifli us an excellent inftance, in Abraham and his defcendants for 

 fome generations ; and, laft of all, in civil fociety, under a reo-ular 

 government, and cultivating arts and fciences, of which the firft and 

 beft example is to be found in Antient Egypt. 



* Preface to vol. 4. p. 2. 



END OF THE FIFTH VOLUME. 



