which he ſaw himſelf placed. It was in conſequence of a very wiſe Providence, that the Faculties, which he potentially enjoyed, were not to develop themſelves but in proportion as there offered Occaſions to exerciſe them, leſt they ſhould be ſuperfluous or troubleſome to him when he did not want them, or tardy and uſeleſs when he did. He had in his Inſtinct alone every thing requiſite to live in a State of Nature; in his cultivated Reaſon he has barely what is neceſſary to live in a State of Society.
It appears at firſt Sight that, as there was no kind of moral Relations between Men in this State, nor any known Duties, they could not be either good or bad, and had neither Vices nor Virtues, unleſs we take theſe Words in a Phyſical Senſe, and call Vices, in the Individual, the Qualities which may prove detrimental to his own Preſervation, and Virtues
