^•^ ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book HI. 



BOOK III. 



Of the Advantages Derived from Civil Society, and 

 how its Ills may be Alleviated, 



CHAP. 



Reafon ivhy Man In the Natural State is happier than in the Civilif- 

 ed. — In the firjl he is governed by Jnjiindf^ — /// the la ft by his own 

 Intelligence. — His wants and de fires few in the Natural State, — ■ 

 /;; the Civi'ifed State innumerable^ — particularly wheti money fur- 

 nifies the means of gratijying them. — In the Civil fed State mofl 

 unnatural pajfions arfe. — Infiance of this in the paffion of males for 

 males. — This a perverfion oj a natural and neceffary paffion,— fuppof 

 ed to have been invented in Greece — much praEiifed in 7hebes, par- 

 ticularly by its Sacred Band.— // went, from Greece to Rome — 

 was much refned there, particularly by the Emperour Heliogabalus. 

 ^-Not unknown in Modern times.— Still praSlifed in Italy, — in 

 Ruffia, and even among the barbarians of Kam/ljatka. — Ihe con- 

 fequence of Vices in the Civilifed life, is Dlfeafes, — The num- 

 ber of thcfe at prefent in Europe not known. — In Pliny the 

 elder s time they were reckoned 300. — They miifl be novo much 

 increafcd as many have bten im'^orted. — In England more Dif- 

 lafes than in mofl other parts of Europ£^ becaufe more Wealth. — We 



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