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Show 58 ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMMERCe of contiguous and independent families ; thefe, together with their inability to defend themfelves, on many fuch occafions, mufl: have incited them to unite. Hence then was .fociety formed on the grand princi pies of prefervation and defence : and as thefe principles began to operate, in the different parts of the earth, where the different families had r-oamed, a great number of thefe .focieties began to be formed and efl:ablifhed; which, taking to themfelves particular names from particular occurrences, began to be perfectly difl:intl: from one another. As the individuals, of whom thefe facieties were compofed, had aifociated only for their defence, fo they experienced, at fidl:, no change in their condition. They were fl:ill independent and free; they were fl:ill without difcipline or laws ; they had every thing fl:ill in common ; they purfued the fame manner of life; wandering only, in herds, as the earth gave them or refufed them [ufl:enance; and doing, as a pub!ick body, what they had been accufl:omed to do as individuals before. This was the exatl: fitua-tion OF THE HUMAN SPECIES, 59 tion °: the * Get;E and Scythians, of the t Ly?1ans and Gretulians, of the :j: Italian Abongines, and of the 11 Huns and Ala They had left their original fiate of d1:n; ~s. . yOCta- 11011, and had fl:epped into that, whi~h has been jufl defcribed. Thus was the fccond fituatwn of men a fl:ate of independent jociety. Havmg thus joined themfelves togethe and having formed themfelves into fever:i la~ge and dillina bodies, they could fail of fubmitting foon to a more confi~:~ rable change. Their numbers mufl: h "dl . ave rapi Y mcreated, and their focieties, in pro-cefs of time, have become fo populous, as frequently to have experienced the want of fubliftence, and many of the commotions ~nd tumults of intefl:ine firife. For thefe ~~conveniences however there were remedies to be found. Agriculture would fi "fh h UG 111 t em with that fubfillence and liu h" pport, ':' ~ch the eartl), from the rapid increafe of !IS Inhabitants, had become unabl {i • Jufiin. L. .z. C. 2 , t Salluft. Bell. Jug. l Salluft. Bell. Catil. e ponta- 1/ Ammianus Marccllinus. L. JI, C. 2 , et infeq. neoufly |