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as those of God) unnatural, and without foun-dation in our minds. Innate is a word he poorlyplays upon : the right word, though less used, isconnatural. For what has birth or progress of thefœtus out of the womb to do in this cafe? Thequestion is not about the time the ideas entered ,or the moment that one body came out of the other:but whether the constitution of man be such, that*being adult and grown up, at such or such a time,sooner or later, (no matter when ), the idea and fenseof order, administration, and a God, will not in-fallibly, inevitably, necessarily spring up in him ?

Then comes the credulous Mr Locke, with hisIndian, barbarian stories of wild nations, that haveno such idea, (as travellers, learned authors ! andmen of truth! and great philosophers! have in-formed him ); not considering, that this is but anegative upon a hearsay, and so circumstantiated ,that the faith of the Indian denier may be as wellquestioned, as the veracity or judgment of therelat-er, who cannot be supposed to know sufficientlythe mysteries and secrets of those barbarians; whoselanguage they but imperfectly know ; to whom wegood Christians have, by our little mercy, givensufficient reason to conceal many secrets from us;as we know particularly in respect of simples and ve-getables : of which, though we got the Peruvianbark, and some other noble remedies; yet it iscertain , that, through the cruelty of the Spaniards,as they have owned themselves, many secrets inmedicinal affairs have been suppressed

But Mr Locke, who had more faith, and was