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 in a manner equal; (7) not but that there are other Rules concerning the Duration of the firt Age of Life, and the Number of the young of Man and other Animals, (8) but they do not belong to my Subject. With old Men, who tir and perpire but little, the Demand for Food diminihes with their Abilities to provide it; and as a avage Life would exempt them from the Gout and the Rheumatim, and old Age is of all Ills that which human Aitance is leat capable of alleviating, they would at lat go off, without its being perceived by others that they ceaed to exit, and almot without perceiving it themelves.

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