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 nothing but a Privation attended with Pain, and a uffering State of Body or Soul: now I would fain know what kind of Miery can be that of a free Being, whoe Heart enjoys perfect Peace, and Body perfect Health? and which is aptet to become inupportable to thoe who enjoy it, a Civil or a Natural Life? In Civil Life we can carcely meet a ingle Peron who does not complain of his Exitence; many even throw away as much of it as they can, and the united Force of Divine and Human Laws can hardly put bounds to this Diorder. Was ever any free Savage known to have been o much as tempted to complain of Life, and lay violent Hands on himelf? Let us therefore judge with les Pride on which ide real Miery is to be placed. Nothing, on the contrary, mut have been o unhappy as avage Man, dazzled by flahes of Knowledge, racked by Paions, and reaoning on a State different from that in