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their Nature; how it comes to paſs, that at the long run our Wants and our Pleaſures change Objects; that, original Man vaniſhing by degrees, Society no longer offers to our Inſpection but an aſſemblage of artificial Men and factitious Paſſions, which are the Work of all theſe new Relations, and have no Foundation in Nature. Reflection teaches us nothing on that Head, but what Experience perfectly confirms. Savage Man and civilized Man differ ſo much at bottom in point of Inclinations and Paſſions, that what conſtitutes the ſupreme Happineſs of the one would reduce the other to deſpair. The firſt ſighs for nothing but Repoſe and Liberty; he deſires only to live, and to be exempt from Labour; nay, the Ataraxy of the moſt confirmed Stoic falls ſhort of his conſummate Indifference for every other Object. On the contrary, the Citizen always in Motion, is perpetually ſweating and toiling, and racking his Brains to find