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 Human Affairs, at leat of the ecret Pretenions of every civilized Heart.

Compare without Prejudice the State of the Citizen with that of the Savage, and find out, if you can, how many Inlets, beides his Wickednes, his Wants, his Mieries, the former has opened to Pain and to Death. If you conider the Afflictions of the Mind which prey upon us, the violent Paions which wate and exhaut us, the exceive labours with which the Poor are overburthened, the till more dangerous Indolence, in which the Rich lie unk, and which bring to the Grave thoe through Want, and thee through Exces. But reflect a Moment on the montrous Mixture, and pernicious Manner of eaoning o many Kinds of Food, the corrupt State in which they are often made ue of; on the Sophitication of Medicines, the Tricks of thoe who ell them, the Mitakes of thoe who adminiter them, the poionous Qualities of the Veels in which they are prepared: but think a little eriouly on the epidemical Dieaes bred by bad Air among great Numbers of Men crowded together, or thoe occaioned by