Among the writers who have attempted to distinguish, in the human
character, its original qualities, and to point out the limits between
nature and art, some have represented mankind in their first condition,
as possessed of mere animal sensibility, without any exercise of the
faculties that render them superior to the brutes, without any political
union, without any means of explaining their sentiments, and even
without possessing any of the apprehensions and passions which the voice
and the gesture are so well fitted to express. Others have made the
state of nature to consist in perpetual wars, kindled by competition for
dominion and interest, where every individual had a separate quarrel
with his kind, and where the presence of a fellow-creature was the
signal of battle.
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