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nerally ſurpaſſes that of Males, and where it has never been obſerved that, even among Savages, the Females had, like thoſe of other Animals, ſtated Times of Paſſion and Indifference. Beſides, among ſeveral of theſe Animals the whole Species takes Fire all at once, and for ſome Days nothing is to be ſeen among them but Confuſion, Tumult, Diſorder and Bloodſhed; a State unknown to the human Species where Love is never periodical. We cannot therefore conclude from the Battles of certain Animals for the Poſſeſſion of their Females, that the ſame would be the Caſe of Man in a State of Nature; and tho' we might, as theſe Conteſts don't deſtroy the other Species, there is at leaſt equal Room to think they would not be fatal to ours; nay it is very probable that they would cauſe fewer Ravages than they do in Society, eſpecially in thoſe Countries where, Morality being as yet held in ſome Eſteem, the Jealouſy of Lovers, and the