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of eating the forbidden fruit; or, in other words, milled by the ignis fatuus of ſcience, man forſook the ſylvan gods, and abandoned the unfollicitous, innocent, and noble ſimplicity of the ſavage, to embrace the anxious, operoſe, mean, miſerable, and ludicrous life of man civilized (19). Hence the eſtabliſhment of towns and cities, thoſe impure ſources of miſery and vice; hence aroſe priſons, palaces, pyramids, and all thoſe other amazing monuments of human ſlavery; hence the ine-
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