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that as for the Notion of Good, as some People understood it, he neither knew where 'twas, nor what. Nothing was Good to him; that was not Good to his [1] Senses, that did not please him in his Eyes, or in his Ears, in his Touch, his Taste, or his Smelling,
No Man, says the Poet in Seneca, is [2] Happy who does not think himself so: Yes, says Epicurus; he must [3] fancy himself superlatively Happy, or else it won't do: Now how can that Man have such a pleasant Fancy, that lies Agonizing in Pain? And owns himself afflicted with the greatest Evil, and in the highest Degree imaginable?
But Epicurus's Lodgings are too Rank to stay in; a little better Air won't do amiss, and therefore wee'l take a turn in Zeno's Piazza.
Now the Stoicks are of a quite different Complexion, and directly opposite to the Epicurean Tenents above-mention'd.
These Philosophers have admirable Notions; "They [4] hold that God Almighty governs the Universe; that his Providence is not only General, but Particular, and reaches to Persons, and Things: That [5] he presides over Humane Affairs; that he assists Men not only in the greatest Concerns, in the Exercises
