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There can be no room to doubt that as the | There can be no room to doubt that as the | ||
| − | + | Divine Providence has allotted to every | |
| + | Animal its mode of existence, dispositions, & | ||
| + | manner of life, the same care has been taken | ||
| + | of the Human Race; there is one material | ||
| + | distinction, in other classes of animals the | ||
| + | individual advances from infancy to maturity, | ||
| + | and attains in a single life all the perfection | ||
| + | his nature can arrive at; but in mankind | ||
| + | the Species has a progress as well as the | ||
| + | individual, every Subsequent Age builds on | ||
| + | the foundations formerly laid, & by degrees | ||
| + | perfection the application of their facultys, | ||
| + | where long experience is required & a | ||
| + | combination of the endeavours of many generations. | ||
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| + | Man in his most unpolished state has | ||
| + | ever been Superior to the Brute creation; | ||
| + | we cannot trace when he was unacquainted | ||
| + | with his own Species; | ||
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| + | Art is natural to Man as he is from his | ||
| + | origin destined to invent & contrive; he is | ||
| + | ever attempting to make improvements, | ||
| + | therefore naturally fickle & obstinate, & we | ||
| + | mistake human nature if we imagine it | ||
| + | inclined to a privation of labour, & a scene | ||
| + | of repose. | ||
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| + | What has been now laid down will we hope | ||
| + | clearly shew the absurdity of those who by | ||
| + | the State of nature mean the opposite to Art. | ||
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4.
There can be no room to doubt that as the Divine Providence has allotted to every Animal its mode of existence, dispositions, & manner of life, the same care has been taken of the Human Race; there is one material distinction, in other classes of animals the individual advances from infancy to maturity, and attains in a single life all the perfection his nature can arrive at; but in mankind the Species has a progress as well as the individual, every Subsequent Age builds on the foundations formerly laid, & by degrees perfection the application of their facultys, where long experience is required & a combination of the endeavours of many generations.
Man in his most unpolished state has ever been Superior to the Brute creation; we cannot trace when he was unacquainted with his own Species;
Art is natural to Man as he is from his origin destined to invent & contrive; he is ever attempting to make improvements, therefore naturally fickle & obstinate, & we mistake human nature if we imagine it inclined to a privation of labour, & a scene of repose.
What has been now laid down will we hope clearly shew the absurdity of those who by the State of nature mean the opposite to Art.
