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diſeaſe, and to the pangs of diſſolution, the ſimple ſavage never dreamt that his nature was ſo much more noble, or that he drew his origin from a purer ſource, or more remote than the animals in whom he ſaw a reſemblance ſo compleat. Nor were the ſimple ſounds, by which he expreſſed the ſingleneſs of his heart, at all fitted to flatter him into that fond ſenſe of ſuperiority over the creatures, whom the faſtidious inſolence of cultivated ages abſurdly ſtyles mute. I ſay, abſurdly ſtylesmute;
