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read it, not in Books compoſed by thoſe like you, for they are liars, but in the Book of Nature which never lies. All that I ſhall repeat after her, muſt be true, without any Intermixture of Falſehood, but where I may happen, without intending it, to introduce my own Conceits. The Times I am going to ſpeak of, are very remote. How much you are changed from what you once was! 'Tis in a manner the Life of your Species that I am going to write, from the Qualities which you have received, and which your Education and your Habits could deprave, but could not deſtroy. There is, I am ſenſible, an Age at which every Individual of you would chooſe to ſtop; and you will look out for the Age at which, had you your wiſh, your Species had ſtopt. Uneaſy at your preſent Condition for Reaſons which threaten your unhappy Poſterity with ſtill greater