This page has been validated.
Discourse.
First Part.
However important it may be, in order to form a proper Judgment of the natural State of Man, to conſider him from his Origin, and to examine him, as it were, in the firſt Embryo of the Species; I ſhall not attempt to trace his Organization thro' its ſucceſſive Approaches to Perfection: I ſhall not ſtop to examine in the animal Syſtem what he might have been in the beginning, to become at laſt what he actually is; I ſhall not inquire, whether, as Ariſtotle thinks, his neglected Nails were no better at first than crooked Talons; whether his whole Body was not, Bear like, thick covered with rough Hair; and whether, walking upon all-fours, (3) his Eyes directed to the Earth, and confined to a
4
Horizon
