CONTENTS. 



BOOK II. 



Of the Difference of the Minds of Men in the Natural and Civllifed 



States. 



CHAP. I. 



In the preceding Book, the difference is (hown betwixt the' Natural and Civilifed Life, 

 wi.'h re<p. £1 to .he Body ; — alio the difference betwixt our M inner of Living, and 

 th-^t of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans ; — and how much more excellent their 

 ^^Tanrier of Living was than ours. — The greatcft attention Ihould be given to health, 

 as it is the greatell bleffing in Life.— Without Healrh, Arts and Sciences, Religion 

 and Philolophy, cannot be cultivated. — If Men, in antient times, had been as dilcaf- 

 ed ^Tid Ihort lived as we, few Sciences could have been invented. — Of the difference 

 betwixt the Minds of Men in the Natural and Civilifed States. — That difference 

 makes the chief difference betwixt the two States — After the neceffary Arts of Life 

 •were invented, the Arts of Eafe, Convenience, and Pleafure, were invented. — Thefe 

 produced many bodily appetites, and many paffion? of ttie Mind, — the piffion for 

 Money p.irticularly. — This peculiar to the Civilifed Life; — more lafting than any 

 other paflion, — infinite and infatiable : — It produces more Crimes, more Wars, and 

 greater dcftru£lion of Mankind, than all our other paflions, — not eafy to fay whe- 

 ther the atquifition or the enjoyment of it produces moft mifchief — The invention 

 of Coin was by the Lydians — a curious, if not an ufcful invention — eaflly carried 

 about, tind furnifliing evtry thiing we caii w fh for to gratify our appetites and de- 

 fines The greaieft mifchief produced by Money is War — All the great Conquefts 



in .inticnt times, of Affyriuns, Medes, &c. were for the fake of Money as much as 

 from ambition. — A Modern War very near as deftrudtive as all the Atitient Wars 

 put together ; — it is the War of the Spaniards againlt the Inhabitants of the New 

 difcovered World. — The account of this War contained in a Book written by Las 

 Cafas Bifliop ot Sciappo in Mexico : — This Bifi-iop hr.d an opportunity of being very 

 well informed, nor cnly by what he faw liiti felf, but by what he learned from others 

 whom he n.imes — Fifty Millions, according to him, deflroyed in Peru, Mexico, and 

 the Weft India Ifl-i ds. — The deftruflion began in thefe Iflands. — In fifty of thofe 

 Iflands, the Native: rcmainiiig were counted, and found to be only elevtn. — The de- 



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