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(11.) This appears to me as clear as Day-Light, and I cannot conceive whence our Philoſophers can derive all the Paſſions they attribute to natural Man. Except the bare phyſical Neceſſaries, which Nature herſelf requires, all our other Wants are merely the Effects of Habit, before which they were no Wants, or of our inordinate Cravings, but we don't crave for that which we are not in a Condition to know. Hence it follows that as ſavage Man longs for nothing but what he knows, and knows nothing but what he actually poſſeſſes or can eaſily acquire, nothing can be ſo calm as his Soul, or ſo confined as his Underſtanding.

Pag. 50.

(12.) I find in Locke's Civil Government an Objection, which appears to me too ſpecious to be here diſſembled. "The End, ſays this Philoſopher, of Conjunction between Male

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