Grapes; all Operations which we muſt allow them to have learned from the Gods, ſince we cannot conceive how they ſhould make ſuch Diſcoveries of themſelves; after all theſe fine Preſents, what Man would be mad enough to cultivate a Field, that may be robbed by the firſt Comer, Man or Beaſt, who takes a fancy to the Produce of it. And would any Man conſent to ſpend his Days in Labour and Fatigue, when the Rewards of his Labour and Fatigue became more and more precarious in Proportion to his Want of them? In a word, how could this Situation engage Men to cultivate the Earth, as long as it was not parcelled out among them, that is, as long as a State of Nature ſubſiſted.
Tho' we ſhould ſuppoſe Savage Man as well verſed in the Art of Thinking, as Philoſophers make him; tho' we were, after them, to make him a Philoſopher himſelf, diſcovering of himſelf the ſub-
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