CONTENTS. 



CHAP. XIV. 



Many of our MoJern Difcoveries owing to our Vices and Crimes, fuch as the love of 

 Money, whicli has pro luced the Difcovery of America and the Weft Indies — alfo 

 of the Cape of Good Hope and Greenland. — Praife of Captain Cooke's Voyages 

 of Difcovery. — Advantages of the Difcoveries of the Moderns, in Geography and 

 Navigation — in the Natural Hiftory of the Earth and its Inhabitants, particularly 

 in the Natural Hiftory of Man. — Of the Modern inventions of Clocks and Watches 

 — Window glafs — the Compafs — Paper — and Printing. — A fenfe of the Beautiful 

 congenial to Man, — accompanies him in all his progrefs from the State of Nature 

 to Civility. Page 182 



C H A P. XV. 



From the Hiftory of Antient and Modern Times, Man appears to be going on in the 

 recovery from his Fallen State. — Inquiry into the Origin of Evil. — Evil either Natu- 

 ral or Moral. — Natural Evil already confidered. — Moral Evil belongs to the Intel- 

 leiftual Nature — the confcquence of Our Fall. — Our recovery only to be made in 

 Civil Society : — There we are governed by Opinion, — and therefore are liable to 

 error, and, its confequence, mifery. — Two Sources of Moral Evil : ijl. Indulgence 

 in pleafures of Senfe ; — thefe increafed by the Civilifed Life ; — Difeafes the confe- 

 quence of that indulgence : — 2d, The Errors of the Intelleft with refpeft to the 

 Beautiful in Sentiments and A£lions : — The confequences of thefe — Ambition, Wars, 

 Conquefts, and the Defolation of the Earth by great Empires, — the love of Money, 

 — Vanity in Drefs, Equipage, &c. Page 191 



CHAP. XVI. 



The Evil Man fuffers proceeds from the abufe of his faculties of Body and Mind. 

 A life of Nature free from difeafe. — What that life is.-^As to diet, it is Vege- 

 tables. — If Flelh is to be ufed, it fhould be raw, as it is ufed by the Carnivorous 



Animals. Bad .efi'efts of our improvements in Luxury : — Our Drink as unnaiural 



as our Food ; — Fermented Liquors, Wine and Spirits. — The great age of the Ante- 

 Jcluvian Patriarchs to be attributed to their limple Diet, conlifting of the Na'ural 



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