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 read it, not in Books compoed by thoe like you, for they are liars, but in the Book of Nature which never lies. All that I hall repeat after her, mut be true, without any Intermixture of Falehood, but where I may happen, without intending it, to introduce my own Conceits. The Times I am going to peak of, are very remote. How much you are changed from what you once was! 'Tis in a manner the Life of your Species that I am going to write, from the Qualities which you have received, and which your Education and your Habits could deprave, but could not detroy. There is, I am enible, an Age at which every Individual of you would chooe to top; and you will look out for the Age at which, had you your wih, your Species had topt. Uneay at your preent Condition for Reaons which threaten your unhappy Poterity with till greater