Nothing therefore can be more evident, than that it is Society alone, which has added even to Love itſelf as well as to all the other Paſſions, that impetuous Ardour, which ſo often renders it fatal to Mankind; and it is ſo much the more ridiculous to repreſent Savages conſtantly murdering each other to glut their Brutality, as this Opinion is diametrically oppoſite to Experience, and the Carribeans, the People in the World who have as yet deviated leaſt from the State of Nature, are to all Intents and Purpoſes the moſt peaceable in their Amours, and the leaſt ſubject to Jealouſy, tho' they live in a burning Climate which ſeems always to add conſiderably to the Activity of theſe Paſſions.
As to the Inductions which may be drawn, in reſpect to ſeveral Species of Animals, from the Battles of the Males, who in all Seaſons cover our Poultry
