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 with their Noes, to as great a Degree of Exactnes, as the bet Dogs could have done; nor that all thee barbarous Nations upport Nakednes without Pain, ue uch large Quantities of Piemento to give their Food a Relih, and drink like Water the tronget Liquors of Europe.

As yet I have conidered Man merely in his Phyical Capacity; let us now endeavour to examine him in a Metaphyical and Moral Light.

I can dicover nothing in any mere Animal but an ingenious Machine, to which Nature has given Senes to wind itelf up, and guard, to a certain Degree, againt every thing that might detroy or diorder it. I perceive the very ame things in the Human Machine, with this Difference, that Nature alone operates in all the Operations of the Beat, whereas Man, as a free Agent, has a Share in his. One chues by intinct; the other by an act of