CONTENTS. 



Art. The Change of Diet of Men has hurt their Bodies more than Clothe?, 



Houfes, or the Ufe of Fire. — Of the Eating of Flefii — fiiH: begun by Hunters, — 

 does not make Men ftronger, but the contrary. — Flefi), if ejten at ail, ought to 

 be eaten raw. — Even our Vegetable Food not vvholefome. — Of the Ufe of Wine. 

 — More pernicious when drunk pure, than when mixed with Water. — Of exceflive 

 Venery of different Kinds, particularly in the Ea(}. — Of the Drinking of Spirits. — 

 This, the mofl: pernicious of all Vices — fuppreflcd by ihe Britifh Legiflature, and 

 reftored. — Difeafes without Names or Numbers, produced by thofe Vices. — Manu- 

 fadures, and other Sedentary Arts, have bad Effeds upon the Health and Strength 

 of the People.— This appears from the Bills of Mortality.— Of Peftilential Dif- 

 eafes, which have come from the Ead, the native Country of fuch Difeafes.— A 

 moft remarkable one in the Ifland of Sumatra, in the Year 1775. — Of the Leprofy. 

 —Of the Small Pox.— Of the Venereal Difeafe— -that Difeafe not from the Wefi: 

 Indies, but from Africa. — Of the Ufe of Opium and Betle. — Of Tobacco. — Of 

 the Pernicious Effeds of great Towns upon the Health of the Inhabitants. — This 

 appears from the Bills of Mortality. — Of the Indigence in rich Countries. — Com- 

 parifon, in this refpe£l, of modern Times with Antient.— No Poor Houfes or 

 Hofpitals in antient Cities.— Degeneracy of the Mind in Modern Times. Page 171 



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Recapitulation of what has been faid of the Body of the Natural Man.— No Increafs 

 of Size in the Civilized State.— In that State, Man, by Art, may excel in eertain 

 Exercifes. — Of the Mind of the Natural Man ;— the fame with the mere Animal 

 Mind.— The Powers of that Mind confidered.— Man more perfeiSl in his Animal 

 Nature than other Animals.— Of the Tranquillity of his Mind in th..t State.— 

 Of the Golden Age in Greece and Italy.— This State not a State of perfetSt Feli- 

 city, the Intellectual Picafures being wanting.— Gymnofophifts in India in a more 

 happy State. P- ^97 



CHAP. VIII. 



%Vhat the Mind of Man is in the Natural State, or in the Firft Ages of Civility, bcft 

 known by being com.parcd with the Minds of Mea more advanced in Social Life. — 

 The Underflandingof Men depends upon the Progrefs they have made in the Arts. 

 — This the Reafon why thofe Nations who have made little Progrefs in Arts appear 

 quite ftupid and brutifti.— The Progrefs in Arts depends upon the Country and 

 Climate in which the People live.— Great Difference, in this refpca, betwixt 

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