8 A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE. 
vatioñ, the properties and qualities of things, and their fitnefs 
for certain ufes, have ‘been difcovered. This difcovery has 
occafioned the application of them to thofe ufes ; and thofe 
have led to others, according as the wants, or the inventive 
faculties: of man have direéted.. Hence we have derived the 
conveniences and ornaments of life, and every ir psoveqionit in 
the arts of living. 
At firft however, at the origination of man; id 5s Was 
-indifpenfibly .neceflary he.fhould be fupplied with the means of 
fabfiftence, before he had acquired fufficient knowledge and 
ability to provide for himfelf, his beneficent Creator, thc 
firft and the fupremely great Naturalift, made known to him 
ae nature and qualities of things, and the ufes to which they 
might be applied, fo far as man's well-being required ; and 
j dass! “provided for that, and endowed him with fuflicient 
citi » Was plesfed, to leave him and his pofterity, to the 
exereif of thofe faculties, for ih > gaining a further degree in 
= tural kn sec in proportion to which, and to their im- 
“rong heer for sich i ag 1, hein 
E uture a | fh uld be Accordingly, in differ- 
ent. ‘nations, from. 2 a . greater. Or les exertion of equal faculties, 
-or fom a happier application of them, we finda greater or lefs 
degree of : e and i | improvements, and a propor- 
; e in their efpecti ‘conveniences and accom- 
 modations. «Hence, with’ regard to thefe latter, the difference 
between en Europe z and dria s, between the moft improved, and 
bas acco nmodated, of mankind and the Hottentots. — . But if 
. their natural che are unequal, collectively taken, as probably 
^ is the cafe ithe reafon of mane a os = will | 
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