CONTENTS. 



ihe Fail of Man Allegorical, and fo undcrftood by ]okif\\ws.—Rem':iiiffnce, as main- 

 tained by Plato, agreeable to the doitrine of an Antecedent 5/j/f:— Such a State in- 

 ferred from the imperfe«5tion of Man in his Natural State, compared with the Natu* 

 ral State of other animals. — Ncccflary, that of a whole Species with impcrfeft Intel- 

 lefts, and poflefled oi free will, Ibnie flioukl fall. — That the cafe of Man on this 

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Man fell to a State of mere capacity of Intelleft and Science. — At ririt ho was Uiifocial 

 and Solitary — had neither Intellect nor Science — Inftance of this in Peter the Wild 

 Boy. — Next he became a Herding Animal like the Orang Outatig ; — had then fom<i 



Inftinftive Arts but no Intellect, though he approached towards it To become In- 



telleflual, he muft enter into Civil Society, and cultivate Arts and Sciences. — Ob- 

 jeftion, That the Goodnefs and Omnipotence of God might have either prevented 

 Man's FiiHi or have reitored him at once to his Primitive State ; — Anfwered. 



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CHAP. IX. 



Of Civil Society and Its effe£ls. — Senfatlons and the Conlcioufiiefs of them, neceffary 

 for preparing us for Civil Society ; — Confcioufnefs denied to the Brute. — A Herding 

 State neceflarily prior to Civil Society. — Our progrefs from fuch a State, or from a 

 fingle Family, to a Political State. — Inftance of fuch a progrefs in the Jewilh Na- 

 tion, and in the Nations of North America. — ^The improvement of the Human In- 

 telleft by the clofe intercourfe produced by Civil Society : — This intercourfc carried 

 on by Language, the firft and moft difficult of Human inventions : — Language com- 

 pared with the Analyfis of Speech into its Elemental Sounds, and with the invention 

 of the "Writing Art. — Language, the Author fuppofes, partly revealed and partly 

 invented : — Its progrefs from Inarticulate Cries to a perfect Language fuch as the 

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CHAP. X. 



Language at firfl Monofyllabical. -Thi.<: proved by the cafe of the Chinefe Language. 

 — Objc(ftion arifing from the Polyfvllabical Languages of North America, anfwered. 



Language 



