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ufeful inftrument in navigation, without which \(/q never could have 

 made thofe great difcoveries of countries before mentioned and of 

 the whole frame of this our earth; I mean the mariner's Compafs. 

 We have alfo difcovered another art, that is, tlie art of making a 

 very valuable commodity of very mean materials ; 1 mean Paper; 

 without the ufe of which, and of another greater art ftill, the art 

 of Printing, which we have likewife invented, antient learning could 

 not have been reftored, or propagated as it has been all over the well: 

 of lun-ope. 



It is here to be obferved, that man, in his progrefs from the moft im- 

 perfedt ftate of civil fociety to a more perfect one, has a fenfe of the 

 Beaulifuly which appears to be fo congenial to intelledl, that an ani- 

 mal cannot have the leaft degree of intclledt, without having, at the 

 fame time, a fcnfe of the beautiful. But the perception of beauty 

 that a man then has, cannot be of the beauty of mind, or of charac- 

 ters or fentiments; but it muft be of the beauty of boi/)\ and even 

 that not of the fined kind. We have hitherto found no nation in 

 fo barbarous a ftate, that they have not fome perception of that kind, 

 particularly with refpedl to their own bodies. Even the inhabitants 

 of New Holland, who have made only the firft ftep towards the 

 acquifition of intelle£l by civil fociety, adorn their bodies, as I have 

 fliown, by carving them : And the Orang Outang, though he has 

 very little more than the capacity of intelle£t, appears, as I have 

 fliown in the account I have given of him *, to have a fenfe of 

 what is decent and becoming. Now, as a fenfe of the beautiful is, 

 as I have fhownf, the foundation of virtue, and, I may add, of reli- 

 gion, 



• See Vol. IV. p. 26. and the paffages there referred to, where there are many 

 things mentioned which prove incontcftibly, I think, that he is a man; though if there 

 were no other but his fenfe of what is decent and becoming, I fliould think that luffl- 

 cient. 



f Page 1 1 9. and the paflage there referred to. 



