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your corrupted Hearts and boundleſs Deſires, take up again, ſince it is in your Power, your ancient and primitive Innocence; retire to the Woods, there to loſe the Sight and Remembrance of the Crimes committed by your Cotemporaries; nor be afraid of debaſing your Species, by renouncing its Improvements in order to renounce its Vices. As to Men like me, whoſe Paſſions have irretrievably deſtroyed their original Simplicity, who can no longer live upon Graſs and Acorns, or without Laws and Magiſtrates; all thoſe who were honoured in the Perſon of their firſt Parent with ſupernatural Leſſons; thoſe, who diſcover, in the Intention to give immediately to Human Actions a Morality which otherwiſe they muſt have been ſo long in acquiring, the Reaſon of a Precept indifferent in itſelf, and utterly inexplicable in every other Syſtem; thoſe, in a word, who are convinced that the Divine Voice has called all Men to the Perfection and Happineſs of the celeſtial Intelligences; all ſuch will endeavour, by the Practice of thoſe Virtues to which they oblige themſelves in learning to diſtinguiſh them, to deſerve the eternal Reward promiſed to their Obedience.