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CHAP. VIII. 



MiUi fell to a State of mere capacity of Intel' cEl and Science. — At 

 frfl he was Unfoc'ial and Solitary — bad neither lutclledt nor Science. 

 — Infance of this in Peter the Wild Boy. — Next he became a Herd- 

 ing Animal like the Orang Oiitang; — had then fome InfinSlive 

 Arts but no IntelleB, though he approached towards it. — To become 

 IntelleSiual, he vnij} enter into Civil Society^ and cultivate Arts and 

 Sciences. — OhjeSfion, That the Goodnc/s and Omnipotence of God 

 might have either pj-evented Mans Fall, or have rcfored him at 

 once to his Primitive State; — Anfwered. 



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EFORE we enter upon the queftion, how the reftoration of 

 Man is to be carried on in this Hfe, we muft firfl: inquire to 

 what kind of animal he fell. This Ariftotle has told us in words 

 which I have given elfewhere*. It is fo compleat a dehnition of man 

 in his natural, that is his fallen flate, that upon it 1 have founded 

 my whole philofophy of man. But in order to underftand it, we 

 muft be both philofophers and Greek fcholars: For we muft know that 

 \oyiv.ov does not denote an intelligent being, but a being that has the 

 comparative faculty, which all the better kind of brutes poflefs; 

 and we muft be able to diftinguifli betwi.xt Noyj and iitiffrn^^n^ and 

 to know that N-yj denotes that faculty of the mind by which we 

 form ideas ; whereas B7rt(r7>;<jri denotes that faculty by which we 

 compare our ideas, and form of them proportions and fcience. 



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