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they take this Method, nothing but Excels 
can hurt them. They need not regard 
thofe general and groundlefs Invedives, 
which have been thrown about of late. If 
every Thing was to be decried, that had 
been at any Time hurtful to Mankind, what 
could poffibly efcape ? Should any Writer 
take upon him to inveigh againft Water, 
becaufe it once drowned the World, and 
has ever fince, upon certain Occafions, done 
a great deal of Mifchief - y fhould another 
difparage frefh Air, as occafioning Colds 
and Catarrhs in the Tender and Valetudi- 
nary fhould a third exclaim againft Sun- 
fhine, upon account of the Damage it does 
to fore Eyes. What fhould we think of 
thefe Mens Under (landings ? If they meant 
any Thing more than Raillery, fhould we 
not pronounce them inexcufably abfurd, 
and conclude that they ought not to be 
trufted with Pen and Ink? No kind of 
Food or Medicine can be thought of, that 
has not been rendered highly detrimental 
by Mifmanagement and Mifapplication. 
An unfeafonable or immoderate Ufe, may 
turn the moft innocent Things into the 
moft pernicious, and convert the greateft 
Bleffings into Means of Deftrudion. Muft 
we 
