Characteristicks of Men Manners Opinions Times volume 2
Characteristicks of Men Manners Opinions Times volume 2
Anthony Ashley Cooper Shaftesbury
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'Twas the rough Draught of Man, the E/Jay or firfi Effort of Nature, a Species in the Birth, a Kind as yet imjormd; not in its natural State, but under Violence, and Mill reftlefs, till it at- taint its natural Perfection. And thus, faid Theocles (addrefling ftill more particularly to the old Gentleman) the Cafe mufl neceffarily fland, even on the fup- pofal '< That there was ever fuch a Condition lt or State of Men, when as yet they were unaflb- " ciated, unacquainted, andconfequently with- ' ...c out any Language or Form of Art. " But 4t That it was their natural State, to live thus fe- 4i parately, " can never without Abfurditybeal- low'd. For foonermay you divefl the Creature of any other Feeling or Arfeclion, than that towards Society and his Likcnefs. Allowing you, however, the Power of diverting him at plea- fure; allowing you to reduce even whole Parts and Members of his prefent Frame; wou'd you 3 i4 The MORALISTS, you transform him thus, and call him flill a Man? Yet better might you do this indeed, than you cou'd flrip him of his natural AffeBions, feparate him from all his Kind, and inclofmg him like fome folitary Infedi in a Shell, declare him lull a Man.
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