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pages) "we are all equal", says he, without any other
"superior but him who is the author of our being".

This done he tells us that "man was formed for society":
which is incontestable since he is it. "Man", however
"was formed for society": and is not capable of
"living alone: as is demonstrated by the writers on that
"subject": against the examples of Alexander Selkirk,
Peter the wild youth, as he was called, of Hanover
now living: Mademoiselle le Blanc of Champagne,
who for aught I have heard may now be living
too; and so many others: "nor indeed have the courage
"to do it": as is demonstrated, I suppose, by
the same writers, against the example of this lady
in particular, who when she was caught at the
10 years ago fought tooth and nail to be left alone
and had wanted not the courage to bear be in company.† † NOTE
See Dictionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle par Mr Valmont de Bomare. Art. Homme. Not
that all this is any thing to the purpose.

That in a state of Nature there are no such things
as Laws, is what, as we have seen he would needs
be proving to us. But we had like not to have observed
taken due notice of his medium; which is, "that in that state
all men are equal". One should be glad, for curiosity's
to come to the sense of this: it being as
usual, much less explicit, than what it was brought [in] by him
to explicate explain. It means, I take it, either that

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