CONTENTS. 



roAfting their nfli. — Though fo Indigent they are a very honeft people. — The peo- 

 ple of Italy, when Safirn came among them, h\ed in the fime manner. — Oi a Man 

 of Norfolk, known by the rame of the Norfolk Mot who was dire£led by Inftinft to 

 live in the natural ^way, without Clothes or Houfe.— The pure Natural Life to be 

 feen only in the Brutes. — They are guided only by Inltinft, not by Intellii^ence ; 

 though they perform wonderful works for the prelervation of the individual and the 

 continuation of the kind.-^If Man had been directed in the fame w. y to provide for 

 the necelTaries of Lite, his inttlk(fl never could have been cultivated, nor Arts and 

 Sciences invented. — The progrefs of his intcUefl in finding out. firft, the moft ne- 

 ceflary Arts of Life, then other Arts and Sciences, and fo advanc'oR in his progrefs 

 towards regaining his former (late. — The wildom and goodnefs of God in this mat- 

 ter to be much admired, p. I. 



CHAP. IL 



Of the Civilifed Life of Man— altogether different from his Natural Life. — To be in- 

 qu red, which of them is molt conducive to the well-being of the Animal Life. — 

 The Life of the Brute, who lives the pure Animal Life, compared with the Civilifed 

 Life, and fhown to be more pertedl than the Animal Life of Man in his Civilifed 



State. The wiidom and goodnefs of God have ufTigned for every Animal the life 



nioft proper for it The Brute enjoys that life, — and is not liable to any difeafe — 



not even the plagues produced by a contagion of the air. — The nearer Man comes to 

 this Natural Life, the healthier, and ilronger, and longer-lived he is. — This proved 

 by fa(ft as well as reafon ; particularly by the example of the People of the Ladrone 

 Iflands, — alfo by the example of the Californians, inhabiting the north weft coaft of 

 America ; — and of the Canbbs inhabiting the Antilles in the Weft Indies j — and, 

 laftly, by the example ot the Antedeluvian Patriarchs. — The People of the Pelew 

 Iflands and of New Zealand, though living lei's in the Natural Life, ftill preferve 

 their health. P- »!• 



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Of the difference betwixt the Natural and Civilifed Life, — The chief articles are Hnufes, 

 Clothes, the ufe ot Fire, Flefli i)iet, and Strong Liquors. — Of Houles : — Tht-y of 

 lattr mvcntion ; the firft covering from the weather being Woods, Koiks, or Caves. 



Another covering from the weather, ufed by the Rich and Luxurious, viz. Car- 



^iagrs. — Clothes a clofTer confinement than Houfes. — Of air, and our intimate con- 

 nedtion with it, as we live in it and by it — Of the air we take in by our Mouth, Nof- 

 trils, and alio by our Skin. — Ot what we throw out by our Skin, that is by perfpi- 



ration ; — 



