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When the crafty Tempter of Mankind meditating their Ruin, attack’d our first Parents in their Pride, he shew’d himself profoundly skill’d in humane Nature; from which the Vice I named is so inseparable that it is impossible the latter should be ever entirely destroy’d, as long as the first remains. I have no Design, Reader, to tire you with the Catalogue of irretrievable Calamities it has been the Occasion of, both before and since the Creation; but shall only observe to you, that as it was destructive to unexperienc’d Adam, by bringing Sickness and Death upon him, so it has still continued to be no less pernicious to his forewarn’d Posterity, by principally obstructing the Progress of the glorious Art that should teach the Recovery as Well as Preservation of Health.
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That most minute and subtile Texture, remote not only from the Senses but likewise from the Reach of human Understanding, which the solid as well as fluid Parts are made of in a living Creature, is and will eternally be hid from us.
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We have all our Knowledge of things natural from Experience made by the Senses; from whence by reasoning consequentially human Understanding enquires into the Causes of the Effects we find; yet no body can be sure that he is in the right, ’till after he has been convinced of the Solidity of his Reasoning by the same Experience, proving and confirming the said Reasoning with matter of Fact.
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Sharp Sauces quicken the Appetite.
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Kleiman-Lafon, S. (2017). Preface to the Second, Enlarged Edition (1730). In: Kleiman-Lafon, S. (eds) Bernard Mandeville: A Treatise of the Hypochondriack and Hysterick Diseases (1730). International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, vol 223. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57781-4_3
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