to reaſon themſelves into Virtue, the human Species would long ago have ceaſed to exiſt, had it depended entirely for its Preſervation on the Reaſonings of the Individuals that compoſe it.
With Paſſions ſo tame, and ſo ſalutary a curb, Men, rather wild than wicked, and more attentive to guard againſt Miſchief than to do any to other Animals, were not expoſed to any dangerous Diſſenſions: As they kept up no manner of Correſpondence with each other, and were of courſe Strangers to Vanity, to Reſpect, to Eſteem, to Contempt; As they had no Notion of what we call Meum and Tuum, nor any true Idea of Juſtice; As they conſidered any Violence they were liable to, as an Evil that could be eaſily repaired, and not as an Injury that deſerved Puniſhment; And as they never ſo much as dreamed of Revenge, unleſs perhaps mechanically and unpremeditatedly,
