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has been in, and the Progreſſes he has made, have added to, or changed in, his primitive Condition. The human Soul, like the Statue of Glaucus which Time, the Sea and Storms had ſo much disfigured that it reſembled a wild Beaſt more than a God, the human Soul, I ſay, altered in the Boſom of Society by the perpetual Succeſſion of a thouſand Cauſes, by the Acceſſion of numberleſs Diſcoveries and Errors, by the Changes that have happened in the Conſtitution of ſurrounding Bodies, by the perpetual jarring of its own Paſſions, has in a manner loſt ſo much of its original Appearance as to be ſcarce diſtinguiſhable; and we no longer perceive in it, inſtead of a Being always acting from certain and invariable Principles, inſtead of that heavenly and majeſtic Simplicity which its Author had impreſſed upon it, but the ſhocking Contraſt of Paſſion that thinks it reaſons, and a delirious Underſtanding.