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nothing but a Privation attended with Pain, and a ſuffering State of Body or Soul: now I would fain know what kind of Miſery can be that of a free Being, whoſe Heart enjoys perfect Peace, and Body perfect Health? and which is apteſt to become inſupportable to thoſe who enjoy it, a Civil or a Natural Life? In Civil Life we can ſcarcely meet a ſingle Perſon who does not complain of his Exiſtence; many even throw away as much of it as they can, and the united Force of Divine and Human Laws can hardly put bounds to this Diſorder. Was ever any free Savage known to have been ſo much as tempted to complain of Life, and lay violent Hands on himſelf? Let us therefore judge with leſs Pride on which ſide real Miſery is to be placed. Nothing, on the contrary, muſt have been ſo unhappy as ſavage Man, dazzled by flaſhes of Knowledge, racked by Paſſions, and reaſoning on a State different from that in