ſical Matters, and that they rather ſerve to account for Facts which exiſt than to aſcertain the real Exiſtence of theſe Facts. Now this is the kind of Proof made uſe of by Mr. Locke in the Paſſage I have cited; for though it may be the Intereſt of the Human Species, that the Union between Man and Woman ſhould be permanent, it does not follow that ſuch an Union was eſtabliſhed by Nature; otherwiſe Nature muſt be allowed to have likewiſe inſtituted Civil Society, Arts, Commerce, and every thing elſe pretended to be uſeful to Mankind.
2. I don't know where Mr. Locke has learned, that among Animals of Prey the Society between Male and Female laſts longer than among thoſe who live upon Graſs, and that one aſſiſts the other in rearing their young ones: For we don't find that the Dog, the Cat, the Bear, or the Wolf ſhow greater Regard to their Females than the Horſe, the Ram, the Bull, the Stag, and all other Quadrupeds do to theirs. On the contrary, it ſeems that, if the Aſſiſtance of the Male was neceſſary to the Female for the Preſerva-
