ſecure to them the Enjoyment of ſome Part at leaſt of their natural Imbecility and Happineſs.
Savage Man, abandoned by Nature to pure Inſtinct, or rather indemnified for that which has perhaps been denied to him by Faculties capable of immediately ſupplying the place of it, and of raiſing him afterwards a great deal higher, would therefore begin with Functions that were merely Animal: (10) to ſee and to feel would be his firſt Condition, which he would enjoy in common with other Animals. To will and not to will, to wiſh and to fear, would be the firſt, and in a manner, the only Operations of his Soul, till new Circumſtances occaſioned new Developments.
Let Moraliſts ſay what they will, the Human Underſtanding is greatly indebted to the Paſſions, which, on their Side, are
