Chap. XViri. ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. 261 



Man being by his nature fo various and fo wonderful an animal, 

 his hiftory is no lefs various and wonderful, as he has palfed through 

 fo many different ftates. He was created little inferior to the an- 

 gels, as our fcripture tells u.s, but with an intellcdl not perfedt, any 

 more than theirs : And, accordingly, fome of his fpecies fell, as well 

 as fome angels*. Thofe of our fpecies, who fell and who inhal)it 

 this earth, have fallen very low, both as to their bodies and their 

 minds. As to their bodies, I think I have fhown f that man in his 

 original ftate on this earth, had not even the ere£t form which he 

 now enjoys, but was a quadruped, and walked upon all four. As 

 to his mind, he had not the ufe of intelle£l:, but only the capacity 

 of acquiring it ; the confequence of which was, that he had none of 

 the arts of life, not even the art of language, the foundation of all 

 other arts. His progrefs from that ftate, to the ftate in which we 

 now fee him, makes his hiftory moft wonderful. 



Of his progrefs in fcience and philofophy I have faid a good deal 

 in a preceding part of this volume p. And I am here to ipeak.or his 

 progrefs in arts, of which I ha\e alio faid lomething in what 1 have 

 mentioned concerning fome modern difcoveries that have been made 

 of that kind ||. But 1 will here fay a good deal more, beginning 

 with the common arts of life, of which the number and variety is 

 fo great, that he may be faid to have made a world of art, to which 

 nothing can be compared but the great world of nature §. But 

 thefe arts are now fo common and fo much pradifed, that we are 

 difpofed to think that they were as eafy in the invention as they 

 are now in the pradice. But a philofopher, who goes beyond the 

 practice of them, to the invention, knows that they could not have 



been 



• See what I have faid upon the Fall of Man, pp. 142 and 143 of this Vol. 



f P. 233 of this Vol. and Vol. III. p. 74. and Vol. IV, p. 22. 



X P. 175 of this Vol. 



U Chap. XIV. of this Book. 



§ Vol. IV. p. 23, 



