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and their Members as obſerving among themſelves an Union, equally intimate and permanent with that which we ſee exiſt in a Civil State, where ſo many common Intereſts conſpire to unite them; whereas in this primitive State, as there were neither Houſes nor Cabbins, nor any kind of Property, every one took up his Lodging at random, and ſeldom continued above one Night in the ſame Place; Males and Females united without any premeditated Deſign, as Chance, Occaſion, or Deſire brought them together, nor had they any great Occaſion for Language to make known their Thoughts to each other. They parted with the ſame Eaſe. (12) The Mother ſuckled her Children, when juſt born, for her own ſake; but afterwards out of Love and Affection to them, when Habit and Cuſtom had made them dear to her; but they no ſooner gained Strength enough to run about in queſt of Food than they ſeparated even from her of