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 word, the numberles Pains and Anxieties annexed to every Condition, and which the Mind of Man is contantly a Prey to; thee are the fatal Proofs that mot of our Ills are of our own making, and that we might have avoided them all by adhering to the imple, uniform and olitary Way of Life precribed to us by Nature. Allowing that Nature intended we hould always enjoy good Health, I dare almot affirm that a State of Reflection is a State againt Nature, and that the Man who meditates is a depraved Animal. We need only call to mind the good Contitution of Savages, of thoe at leat whom we have not detroyed by our trong Liquors; we need only reflect, that they are Strangers to almot every Dieae, except thoe occaioned by Wounds and old Age, to be in a manner convinced that the Hitory of human Dieaes might be eaily compoed by puruing that of civil Societies. Such at leat was the Opinion of Plato, who