An Essay On the Origin And Prospects of Man volume 3
An Essay On the Origin And Prospects of Man volume 3
Thomas Hope
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To portable tents he adds some still more moveable convey- ance. He contrives a carriage. No longer obliged to pursue his prey, but to driv;e his property before him, he moderates his pace, travels at an easy rate with his family. The improvement of his condition stops not here. No longer fearing himger, no longer appre- hensive of meeting in every other man a being readv to wrest from him his hard-earned means of sustenance, no longer finding entire solitude his only state of security — in eas...e, in repose and in plenty — he feels the subsiding of the bodily solicitations of hunger occasionally leave leisure for the mental cravings of curiosity; he becomes sociable; to food for the sense he wishes to add food for the mind; he draws nearer to his fellow- creatures, wliom he no longer regards as his na- tural enemies; he forms with them a compact for mutual })rotection; he associates with his neighbours; welcomes strangers; from taciturn and destructive he expands in talkativeness and in hospitality; the infant and the elder, encum- brances to tlie mere hunter, to the shepherd by their prattle or their prosing become a pastime and a solace; the traveller, in return for the in- formation he gives, is offered food and rei)ose; 74 ON THE ORIGIN for defence and for company many families con- gregate their tents into a camp ; and, only where camps become too extensive for the territory, do their owners, like the patriarchs of old, divide and strike out different paths.
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