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the Woman's, ſuppoſing her ſubject to the ſame Appetite during her Pregnancy, a thing which may be reaſonably doubted. But if in a State of Nature, the Woman, when ſhe has conceived, no longer feels the Paſſion of Love, the Obſtacle to her aſſociating with Men becomes ſtill greater, ſince ſhe no longer has any Occaſion for the Man by whom ſhe is pregnant, or any other. There is therefore no Reaſon on the Man's Side, for his coveting the ſame Woman, nor on the Woman's for her coveting the ſame Man. Locke's Argument therefore falls to the Ground, and all the Logick of this Phiſopher has not ſecured him from the Miſtake committed by Hobbes and others. They had to explain a Fact in the State of Nature, that is in a State in which every Man lived by himſelf without any Connection with other Men, and no one Man had any Motives to aſſociate with any other, nor perhaps, which is ſtill worſe, Men in general to herd together; and it never came into their Heads to look back beyond the Times of Society, that is to ſay, thoſe Times in which Men had always Motives for herding together, and in which one Man has often Motives for aſſociating with this or that particular Man, this or that particular Woman.