no Hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every Step Food and Shelter to every Species of Animals. Men, diſperſed among them, obſerve and imitate their Induſtry, and thus riſe to the inſtinct of Beaſts; with this Advantage, that, whereas every Species of Beaſts is confined to one peculiar Inſtinct, Man, who perhaps has not any that particularly belongs to him, appropriates to himſelf thoſe of all other Animals, and lives equally upon moſt of the different Aliments, (5) which they only divide among themſelves; a circumſtance which qualifies him to find his Subſiſtence, with more Eaſe than any of them.
Men, accuſtomed from their Infancy to the Inclemency of the Weather, and to the Rigour of the different Seaſons; inured to Fatigue, and obliged to defend, naked and without Arms, their Life and their Prey againſt the other wild Inhabitants of the Foreſt, or at leaſt to avoid their
