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On the inequality

the Diſpoſitions implanted in him by Nature, and not to Taſte which he never was in a Way of acquiring; and every Woman anſwers his Purpoſe.

Confined entirely to what is phyſical in Love, and happy enough not to know theſe Preferences which ſharpen the Appetite for it, at the ſame Time that they increaſe the Difficulty of ſatisfying ſuch Appetite, Men, in a State of Nature, muſt be ſubject to fewer and leſs violent Fits of that Paſſion, and of courſe there muſt be fewer and leſs violent Diſputes among them in Conſequence of it. The Imagination, which cauſes ſo many Ravages among us, never ſpeaks to the Heart of Savages, who peaceably wait for the Impulſes of Nature, yield to theſe Impulſes without Choice and with more Pleaſure than Fury; and whoſe Deſires never outlive their Neceſſity for the thing deſired.

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