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1passage withheldWithheld: direct continuation of 110:003 — attributes the "brutishness" of entire real-world Peoples to ancestral defilement, states such peoples "scarcely differ... from beasts." stmartin1-flags.md.
2Lorsque les Observateurs ont voulu , au contraire , prendre leurs exemples dans les Sociétés policées , où le respect du lien conjugal & la pudeur ne sont presque jamais que l'effet de l'éducation , ils se sont encore trompés dans leurs jugements, parce que ces Sociétés n'éclairant pas l'homme sur les droits de sa véritable nature , y suppléent par des instructions & des sentiments factices , que le temps , les lieux, le genre dévie , font disparoître; aussi* en ôtant de ces Sociétés policées , les dehors de décence reçue, ou une attache plus ou moins forte aux principes de la première éducation , on n'y erouveroit peut-être pas réellement plus de pudeur que parmi les Nations les plus grossières ; mais cela ne prouvera jamais rien contre la vraie Loi de l'homme , parce que dans ces deux exemples , les Peuples dont il est question en sont également éloignés , les uns par défaut de culture & les autres par dépravation ; en sorte qu'aucuns d'eux ne sont dans leur état naturel. Pour résoudre la difficulté , il falloit donc remonter jusqu'à cet état naturel de l'homme ; alors on auroit vu que la forme corporelle étant l'Etre le plus disproportionné avec l'homme inX 5 intellectuel*
3passage withheldWithheld: restates the 110:003/111:001 claim — "all the deformities and all the vices the different Nations show... come from the fact that their Ancestors had not followed their natural Law." stmartin1-flags.md.
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1passage withheldWithheld: direct continuation of 110:003 — attributes the "brutishness" of entire real-world Peoples to ancestral defilement, states such peoples "scarcely differ... from beasts." stmartin1-flags.md.
2When the Observers have wished, on the contrary, to take their examples from within policed Societies, where respect for the conjugal bond and modesty are almost never anything but the effect of education, they have likewise been mistaken within their judgments, because these Societies, not enlightening man upon the rights of his true nature, supply for it with artificial instructions and sentiments, which time, places, and the manner of life cause to disappear; thus, in removing from these policed Societies the outward appearances of received decency, or a more or less strong attachment to the principles of one's first education, one would perhaps find there, in reality, no more modesty than among the coarsest Nations; but this will never prove anything against the true Law of man, because, within these two examples, the Peoples in question are equally distant from it, some through lack of culture and the others through depravity; so that none of them are within their natural state. To resolve the difficulty, one had, then, to go back as far as this natural state of man; then it would have been seen that the bodily form, being the Being most disproportionate with intellectual X 5 man,
3passage withheldWithheld: restates the 110:003/111:001 claim — "all the deformities and all the vices the different Nations show... come from the fact that their Ancestors had not followed their natural Law." stmartin1-flags.md.
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