picture of the State of Nature, how much even natural Inequality falls ſhort in this State of that Reality and Influence which our Writers aſcribe to it.
In Fact, we may eaſily perceive that among the Differences, which diſtinguiſh Men, ſeveral paſs for natural, which are merely the Work of Habit and the different Kinds of Life adopted by Men living in a ſocial Way. Thus a robuſt or delicate Conſtitution, and the Strength and Weakneſs which depend on it, are oftener produced by the hardy or effeminate Manner in which a Man has been brought up, than by the primitive Conſtitution of his Body. It is the ſame thus in Regard to the Forces of the Mind; and Education not only produces a Difference between thoſe Minds which are cultivated and thoſe which are not, but even increaſes that which is found among the firſt in proportion
