![]() ![]() The poet, the historian, and the mo∣ralist, frequently allude to this ancient time and under the emblems of gold, or of iron, represent a condition, and a manner of life, from which mankind have either degenerated, or on which they have greatly improved. Hence the supposed departure of mankind from the state of their na∣ture hence our conjectures and different opinions of what man must have been in the first age of his being. Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilization. They acquire, This progress in the case of man is continued to a greater extent than in that of any other animal. ![]() The latter being de∣stined to act, extend their operations as their powers increase: they exhibit a progress in what they perform, as well as in the faculties Vegetables grow from a tender shoot, and animals from an infant state. NATURAL productions are generally formed by degrees. Of the question relating to the State of Nature.
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