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But a bold peafantry, their country's fword 

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Mankind- neverthelefs feems by nature to be defigned to fubfift oir 

 both vegetable and animal nutriment, which appears from the lengtb 

 of his inteftines, which like thofe of fwine are much longer than the 

 inteftines of carnivorous animals, and much fliorter than thofe of the 

 vegetable eaters ; and which alfo appears from the ftrudture of his 

 teeth, whiqh partakes of the ftrudure of thofe of the carnivorous and 

 phytivorous animals ; and laftly, becaufe thofe people, who live folely 

 on vegetables, as the Gentoo tribes, and thofe who fubfift folely on. 

 animals, as the fifli-eaters of the northern latitudes, are undoubtedly 

 a feebler generation than thofe of this country, who exift on a mix- 

 ture of both. A due proportion therefore of the two kinds of nou- 

 rifliment, fuch as perhaps at prefent exifts, or lately did exift, in this 

 nation, muft be decidedly the beft ; the prefervation of which, with 

 the prohibition of fpirits, or of ftrong fermented liquors, except oc- 

 cafionally as medicines, might probably render thefe kingdoms mor/e 

 populous,, robuft, profperous, and happy, than any other nation in the 

 world. But if the luxurious intemperance of confuming flefli-meat 

 principally, and of drinking intoxicating liquors, (hould increafc 

 amongft us, fo as to thin the inferior orders of fociety by fcarcity of 



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Luxuria incubuit, vidumque ulcifcituc orbem 



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