withſtanding; he has even this great Advantage over ſuch weaker Species, that being equally fleet with them, and finding on every Tree an almoſt inviolable Aſylum, he is always at liberty to take it or leave it, as he likes beſt, and of courſe to fight or to fly, whichever is moſt agreeable to him. To this we may add that no Animal naturally makes war upon Man, except in the Caſe of Self-defence or extreme Hunger; nor ever expreſſes againſt him any of theſe violent Antipathies, which ſeem to indicate that ſome particular Species are intended by Nature for the Food of others.
But there are other more formidable Enemies, and againſt which Man is not provided with the ſame Means of Defence; I mean natural Infirmities, Infancy, old Age, and Sickneſs of every Kind; melancholy Proofs of our Weak-
