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foreſaw nor reſolved to be the Author of. 'Tis evident that Mr. Locke ſuppoſes the very thing in queſtion: For we are not enquiring why Man ſhould continue to live with the Woman after her Delivery, but why he ſhould continue to attach himſelf to her after Conception. The Appetite ſatisfied, Man no longer ſtands in need of any particular Woman, nor the Woman of any particular Man. The Man no longer troubles his Head about what has happened; perhaps he has not the leaſt Notion of what muſt follow. One goes this Way, the other that, and there is little Reaſon to think that at the End of nine Months they ſhould remember ever to have known each other: For this kind of Remembrance, by which one Individual gives the Preference to another for the Act of Generation, requires, as I have proved in the Text, a greater Degree of Improvement or Corruption in the Human Underſtanding, than Man can be ſuppoſed to have attained in the State of Animality we here ſpeak of. Another Woman therefore may ſerve to ſatisfy the new Deſires of the Man full as well as the one he has already known; and another Man in like Manner ſatisfy