IV. TO KEW. 6? 



might with equal ease have created man in the 

 plenitude of age and strength, as in a state 

 of helplessness and ignorance; or, might 

 have excluded from his plan of creation the 

 successive generation of beings, and bestowed 

 man an existence equal induration to that of 

 the planetary system. 



Either of these plans would, however, 

 have equally prevented the present order o* 

 things and ail the enjoyments connected 

 with the social condition of man. 



Were the earth only peopled with a 

 certain number of men, instead of a succession 

 oi individuals, we should in vain (Mu!iavotir 

 to discover amoMjj them those bonds of 

 attachment which at. present connect them 

 with each other; we should on!v behold 

 beings insolated in the mid it of th. ials. 



Or had the body and mind bc-.-n made at on- 

 perfect, no tie would ha .>ted to attach 

 .children to their parents, or paivuts to t' 

 children. 



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