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 that as for the Notion of Good, as some People understood it, he neither knew where 'twas, nor what. Nothing was Good to him; that was not Good to his Senses, that did not please him in his Eyes, or in his Ears, in his Touch, his Taste, or his Smelling,

No Man, says the Poet in Seneca, is Happy who does not think himself so: Yes, says Epicurus; he must fancy himself superlatively Happy, or else it won't do: Now how can that Man have such a pleasant Fancy, that lies Agonizing in Pain? And owns himself afflicted with the greatest Evil, and in the highest Degree imaginable?

But Epicuruss Lodgings are too Rank to stay in; a little better Air won't do amiss, and therefore wee'l take a turn in Zenos Piazza.

Now the Stoicks are of a quite different Complexion, and directly opposite to the Epicurean Tenents above-mention'd.

These Philosophers have admirable Notions; "They hold that God Almighty governs the Universe; that his Providence is not only General, but Particular, and reaches to Persons, and Things: That he presides over Humane Affairs; that he assists Men not only in the greatest Concerns, in the Exercises Rh