The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.


The New Science (3rd ed., 1730) bk. 1, sect. 2, para. 67, no. 242


The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.

The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute.