Aliments from the Earth, for the Earth would yield them without all that Trouble, as to oblige her to produce thoſe things, which we like beſt, preferably to others? But let us ſuppoſe that Men had multiplied to ſuch a Degree, that the natural Products of the Earth no longer ſufficed for their Support; a Suppoſition which, by the bye, would prove that this Kind of Life would be very advantageous to the Human Species; let us ſuppoſe that, without Forge or Anvil, the Inſtruments of Huſbandry had dropt from the Heavens into the Hands of Savages, that theſe Men had got the better of that mortal Averſion they all have for conſtant Labour; that they had learned to foretell their Wants at ſo great a Diſtance of Time; that they had gueſſed exactly how they were to break the Earth, commit their Seed to it, and plant Trees; that they had found out the Art of grinding their Corn, and improving by Fermentation the Juice of their
