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naturally void of fear, and always intent upon attacking and fighting. An illuſtrious Philoſopher thinks on the contrary, and Cumberland and Puffendorff likewiſe affirm it, that nothing is more fearful than Man in a State of Nature, that he is always in a tremble, and ready to fly at the firſt Motion he perceives, at the firſt Noiſe that ſtrikes his Ears. This, indeed, may be very true in regard to Objects with which he is not acquainted; and I make no doubt of his being terrified at every new Sight that preſents itſelf, as often as he cannot diſtinguiſh the Phyſical Good and Evil which he may expect from it, nor compare his Forces with the Dangers he has to encounter; Circumſtances, that ſeldom occur in a State of Nature, where all Things proceed in ſo uniform a Manner, and the Face of the Earth is not liable to thoſe ſudden and continual Changes occaſioned in it by the Paſſions and Inconſtancies of collected Bodies. But ſa-