taken with the Inhabitants of theſe Countries to inſtruct them in their Duty to one another, and the Art of living peaceably and agreeably together, we no longer ſee them produce any thing like thoſe numberleſs Hoſts, which they formerly uſed to ſend forth. I am afraid that ſomebody may at laſt take it into his Head to anſwer me by ſaying, that truly all theſe great Things, namely Arts, Sciences and Laws, were very wiſely invented by Men, as a ſalutary Plague, to prevent the too great Multiplication of Mankind, left this World, given us for our Habitation, ſhould at length be found too little for its Inhabitants.
What then? Muſt Societies be deſtroyed? Meum and Tuum aboliſhed, and Man bury himſelf again in Foreſts among Wolves and Bears? A Conſequence in the Stile of my Adverſaries, which I chuſe to obviate rather than permit them the Shame of drawing it. O you, by whom the Voice of Heaven has not been heard, and who allow your Species no other Lot but that of finiſhing in Peace this ſhort Life; you, who can lay down in the midſt of Cities your fatal Acquiſitions, your turbulent Spirits,
