ii8 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book II. 



CHAP. IV. 



Of the health of Men in the Natural State. — No Anitnalin that State 

 liable to any Difeafe. — T'he Longevity of the Natural Man, proved 

 from Abfra6l Reafoning and Final Caufes ; — proved from FaSls, — 

 'The Hijioryqf the antient Patriarchs by MofeSy a tnof exa6l Chronolo- 

 cal Hijlory; — compared nvith the Greek Chronology by Generations. — 

 Agreement of Mofes's Hifiory ivith my Syfem. — Obje&ion anfivered, 

 that Mofes's Tears are only Months. — Other Authorities, beftdes 

 Mofes^ of the long Lives of the frjl Men. ^- Of the Life of Mofes 

 himfelf. — ObjeSlion, from ivhat King David fays of the Lives of 

 Men, anfivered.'^Of the Longevity of the Greeks about the Time 

 of the Trojan War. — The Length of the Reigns of the Lydian and 

 Egyptian Kings, 



IN the preceding Chapter, I think, I have fhown moft clearly, 

 that the Man of Nature muft be different from the civiHzed 

 Man, in Body, as well as in Mind j am now to fliow what he is 

 in himfelf, without reference to Man in any other ftate, and par- 

 ticularly what he is with refped to health, longevity, fize, and 

 ftrength of Body : And, when we have confidered him in thefe re- 

 fpeds, we may then refume the comparifon betwixt him and Man 

 civilized, and in this way we Ihall perceive more clearly the difference. 



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