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the firſt of his younger Brothers, that ever ſo accidentally joſtled or otherwiſe diſturbed him. But theſe are two contradictory Suppoſitions in the State of Nature, to be robuſt and dependent. Man is weak when dependent, and his own Maſter before he grows robuſt. Hobbes did not conſider that the ſame Cauſe, which hinders Savages from making uſe of their Reaſon, as our Juriſconſults pretend, hinders them at the ſame time from making an ill uſe of their Faculties, as he himſelf pretends; ſo that we may ſay that Savages are not bad, preciſely becauſe they don't know what it is to be good; for it is neither the Development of the Underſtanding, nor the Curb of the Law, but the Calmneſs of their Paſſions and their Ignorance of Vice that hinders them from doing ill: tanto plus in illis proficit Vitiorum ignorantia, quam in his cognitio Virtutis. There is beſides another Principle that has eſcaped Hobbes, and which, having been given