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 ently demonstrated. He us'd to harangue the People upon the Fallibility of their Senses, and by deceiving them sometimes with Legerdemain, in which he was very expert, brought them to believe, that their Senses, being rightly dispos'd, the Object at a proper Distance, and in a proper Medium, cou'd, and often did deceive 'em. So that if a Man caught him in Bed with his Wife, he wou'd before he got up deny the Fact, and then learnedly prove, that the Cuckold was either asleep, or somewhere else at the same Time, or else that himself was not Pythagoras, but the Man of the House, or else, if he was hard put to it, that he was both. Shou'd the poor Man, notwithstanding all this, still believe his Senses, and that he was a Cuckold, he would indict him for what he had said; and in case of Obstinacy (so great was his Power) put him to Death. He gave out that he had a Golden Thigh, which the common People understood literally, but the wiser Sort have found out, that he meant only that one of his Breeches Pockets was constantly full of that Metal; whence his Followers, in Imitation of him, spare no Pains to get it, and some have been so cunning as to pretend they never use any Money, that they might the more easily keep all they got, and be furnish'd with Necessaries gratis. He order'd his Followers to abstain from all kind of Flesh, and from Beans: What his Design cou'd be in the first, is thought to be only a Pretext to his Knavery, to deceive the People, by the seeming Austerity of his Morals. But his Followers could not play the Hypocrites so well, they could not abstain from Flesh altogether, wherefore they allow'd themselves the Use of it, except at some certain Times, when they thought Fish might be acceptable thro' Variety. Some think that by the Word Flesh he understands all Animals, but this they reject,