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T is inadvertently affirm'd in the Chritian Countries of Europe, that the Englih are Fools and Madmen. Fools, becaue they give their Children the Small-Pox to prevent their catching it; and Mad-men, becaue they wantonly communicate a certain and dreadful Ditemper to their Children, merely to prevent an uncertain Evil. The Englih, on the other Side, call the ret of the Europeans cowardly and unnatural. Cowardly, becaue they are afraid of putting their Children to a little Pain; unnatural, becaue they expoe them to die