Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Epistle to a Friend, on the Means of Preserving Health, Promoting Happiness; And Prolonging the Life of Man to Its Natural Period: Being a Summary View of Inconsiderate and Useless Habits That Derange the System of Nature, Thereby Causing Premature Old Age and Death, With Some Thoughts on the Best Means of Preventing and Overcoming Disease
Man, who is a rational animal 'unless he is governed by his reason, is led by variously ex cited appetites to an abuse of many of the bless ings bestowed on him.
If we are not guided by our reason, and de termine our conduct by an impartial examination of our feelings, what cause have we to boast of being a little above the brute creation?
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