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CHAP. XVI. 



The Evil Man fuJTcrs proceeds from the ahufe of his faculties of Body 

 and Mind. — A life of Nature free from dileafe — What that Ife is. 

 — As to diet^ it is Vegetables. — If Fief} is to be tfed^ it fliould be 

 raw, as it is ufed by the Cat nivorous Animals. — Bad ej^t£ls of our 

 improvements in Luxury : — Our Drink as unnatural as our Food ; 

 — Fermented Liquors, Wine and Spirits, — The great age of the 

 Anttdeluvian Patriarchs to be attributed to their fmple Diet con- 

 f fling of the Natural Fruits of the Earth .^ — without Flefh, Wine^ 

 or other frong Liquors, — Houfs and Clothes not nccejfary for 

 Animals in the natural State. — This proved from e\amples.- The 

 Natural Life of Man in the open air — Caves the frfl Houfes ufed 

 by Man ; — In thefe the Cyclops lived. — Then Clothes were invent- 

 ed : — Evils refulting from the u/e of them; — they are not neceffary 

 fo^ the coldejl climates; — Anacharfs^ the Scythian s.^ reafon for go^ 

 ing naked. — Of the invention of Fire, and its pernicious effe^s.—— 

 Impojfible that Man, living fo unnaturally., fjjould be f long lived 

 and healthy as he might be by living the life of Nature: — The Evils 

 of Mans artificial life to be alleviated by the open Air, the Cold 

 Bath, Anointing, Physic, and Exercife. — Evils attending exccffes 

 in Venery and the unnatural ufes oj it. 



S Man, in this life, is compofed of mind and body, it is evident 



that all the evil he here fuffers muft proceed from his mind 



or body, or from both : And, I think, 1 have faid enough to prove 



that God or Nature is not the caufe of the evils which he fuffers, 



but he himfelf, by an abufe of the faculties of mind and body, which 



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