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air; his first step out of which, as Hamlet truly observes, is into his grave[1]. His first dwellings, of course, were the hollows of trees and rocks: in process of time he began to build: thence grew villages; thence grew cities: luxury, oppression, poverty, misery, and disease kept pace with the progress of his pretended improvements, till, from a free, strong, healthy, peaceful animal, he has become a weak, distempered, cruel, carnivorous slave.
The Reverend Doctor Gaster.
Your doctrine is orthodox, in so far as you assert, that the original man was not encumbered with clothes, and that he lived in the open air: but as to the faculty of speech, that it is certain he had, for the authority of Moses———
- ↑ See Lord Monboddo's Ancient Metaphysics
