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ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book IL 



B O O K II. 



Of the Difference of the Minds of Men in the Natu- 

 ral and Civilifed States. 



CHAP. I. 



hi the preceding Book, the difference is fiown betwixt the Natural and 

 Civilifed Life, with refpeEl to the Body; — alfo the difference betwixt 

 our Manner of Living, and that of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Ro- 

 inans; — and how much more excellent their Manner of Living was 

 than ours. — The greafef attention ff 3 ould be given to health, as it is 

 the great e/l bleffing in Life. — Without Health, Arts and Sciences , 

 Religion and Philofopby, cannot be cultivated. — If Men, in antient 

 times, had been as difeafed and fhort 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 t%vo States. — After the neceffary 

 Arts of Life were invented, the Arts of Eafe, Convenience, and 

 Plcajure, were invented. — Thefe produced many bodily appetites, 

 and many paffions of the Mind, — the paffion for Moiiey particular- 

 ly^ "JCjj'is peculiar to the Civilifed Life; — more lafing than any 



other paffion, — infinite and infatiable: — // produces ?nore Crimes, 

 more Wars, and greater defru&ion of Mankind, than all our other 



paffions. 



