to their Culture; for let a Giant and a Dwarf ſet out in the ſame Path, the Giant at every Step will acquire a new Advantage over the Dwarf. Now, if we compare the prodigious Variety in the Education and Manner of living of the different Orders of Men in a civil State, with the Simplicity and Uniformity that prevails in the animal and ſavage Life, where all the Individuals make uſe of the ſame Aliments, live in the ſame Manner, and do exactly the ſame things, we ſhall eaſily conceive how much the Difference between Man and Man in the State of Nature muſt be leſs than in the State of Society, and how much every Inequality of Inſtitution muſt increaſe the natural Inequalities of the Human Species.
But tho' Nature in the Diſtribution of her Gifts ſhould really affect all the Preferences that are aſcribed to her, what
