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 Fury by flight, acquire a robut and almot unalterable Habit of Body; the Children, bringing with them into the World the excellent Contitution of their Parents, and trengthening it by the ame Exercies that firt produced it, attain by this Means all the Vigour that the human Frame is capable of. Nature treats them exactly in the ame Manner that Sparta treated the Children of her Citizens; thoe who come well formed into the World he renders trong and robut, and detroys all the ret; differing in this Repect from our Societies, in which the State, by permitting Children to become burthenome to their Parents, murders them all without Ditinction, even in the Wombs of their Mothers.

The Body, being the only Intrument that avage Man is acquainted with, he employs it to different Ues, of which ours, for Want of Practice, are