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                    ASCRIBED BY HI»_,

  To their inattention  in the choice of their  foods:  The ten-
dency of the same, and their undeniable influence on the human
system: The particular distinction of solid and liquid aliments
in the body; their peculiar purposes, and the blood affection
of the human body, its  preciousnes., and the caution that every
one ought  to  have not to part with such a  precious liquor ;
and sincere advice not to listen to insidious advice, that would
tend to bereave them of the soul of their lives.-----And a Suc-
cinct  Narration  of the bombastic  and  frantic enthusiasm of
the luminous brain at the glorious discovery of the blood-im-
petuous circulation.—The great strife that has taken place  at
the memorable event, among the most notorious members of the
lacred Physical Cabala; their admirable doctrines and remark-
able versions concerning the prolific sanguification  of the foods
into the blood permanent transformation.
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Br SYLVAN, Enemy to Human Diseases*

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He whose will, wisdom creates for a purpose,
To whom, when He please his secret can disclose,
And for the one shewing to have such a favour,
Spite ought to be dumb or scoff'd for its clamour.

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          JLPE it remembered, That on the Eleventh day of January, in
the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
SYLVAN, ENEMY TO HUMAN DISEASES,  of the said District, hath depo-
sited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in
the words following, to wit:
  " A confidential communication of the Enemy of Human Diseases, and the
afflicted applying to him, to whom only is intended this supplementary reflec-
tion concerning the cause of Human prevalent miseries: ascribed by him, to
their inattention in the choice of their foods.- the tendency of the same, and
their undeniable influence on the human system : the particular distinction of
solid and liquid aliments in the body; their peculiar purposes, and the blood
affection of the human body,  its preciousness,  and the caution that every one
ought to have, not to part with such a precious liquor; and sincere advice not
to listen to insidious advice, that would tend to bereave them of the soul of
their lives.----And a succinct Narration of the  bombastic and frantic enthusi-
asm of the luminous brain, at the glorious discovery of the blood-impetuous
circulation.—The  great strife that has taken place at the memorable  event,
among the most notorious members of the sacred Physical Cabala; their admi-
rable doctrines and remarkable versions concerning the prolific sanguification
of the foods into the blood permanent transformation.   By  Sylvan, Enemy
to Human Diseases.    (Price 40 cents.)
             He whose will, wisdom creates for a purpose,
             To whom, when He please his secret can disclose,
             And for the one shewing to have such a favour,
             Spite ought to be dumb or scofPd for its clamour."
  In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An
Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts
and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies  during the times
therein mentioned."
                                       H. W. EDWARDS,
                                Clerk of the  District of Connecticut.
    A true copy examined and sealed by me,
                                       \VM. H. JONES,
                                                  Deputy Clerk.
   *#* J\o copy is  to be considered genuine without the
rose  coloured stamp. 
ADVERTISEMENT.
     1. HE generality of the inhabitants of this world, ex-
 hibiting the assemblage of beings busily engaged in their
 occupations  by motives  of personal interest.  Like the
 rest of mankind,  those who devote themselves to litera-
 ry productions, have in view, for  main objects of their
 pursuits, the hope of reaping fame  or riches.   In the
 scientifical  career,  the eager pursuers are  commonly
 guided  bv  the expectation of acquiring  renown  and
 wealth.  But in this  occurrence,  it must be declared
 provisionally, that the real motive ol this  writing, differ-
 ing from the common rule, must be attributed,  instead
 of panting after gain or celebrity, to the  hope of being
 useful to those  who are the  orly objects of the undertak-
 ing.   Therefore on  this  occasion,  stimulated by neces-
 sity,  and the  expectation of doing good—this candid
 declaration must serve to inform those who are the prin-
 cipal objects of this proceeding, whose welfare is the main
 object in contemplation, that if eagerness of fulfilling one's
 duty and of  being of service, compels to  have recourse
 to hurrying means in this occurrence, the attempt must
 compel"those who  are the chief cause of  it, to make some
allowance for the unavoidable defects of a work, that is
entirely intended to serve their interest.   And moreover
they must be induced to excuse the faults  that cannot be 
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prevented, if they present to themselves the difficulty of
the subject treated therein, and the little time that the au-
thor has to digest his matters, and to deliver his reflec-
tions in a regular manner.  To succeed in such a serious
undertaking, it must be observed, that in all times the gen-
erality of  writers and commentators, have received ad-
vice and help  from each other to enlighten their minds,
and that they are in their pursuit, governed by numerous
predecessors,  ancient,  and cotemporaries, and  that bor-
rowing of one another sentiments and reflections upon
any matter, with such effectual assistance, notwithstand-
ing the usual declaration  of  an original work.   To be
confirmed of the truth, having recourse to close exami-
nation, one soon finds a new composition, to be but a mere
compound of various selections and multiplied  compila-
tions, or plain servile imitations and obvious plagiaries.
But to decide  of the matter, if  void of competency, in
order to demonstrate if there is any accuracy in the asser-
tion, among the number of  those who have given their
candid opinion on this subject, on that head we have to
rejfer to some competent authority.
   " Were aU books reduced to their quintessence many a
bulky author would make his appearance in  a penny pa-
per : there would be scarce any such thing in nature  as a
Folio: the works of an  age,  would  be contained  on a
few shelves ; not to mention  millions of volumes   that
would be  utterlv  annihilated."—Addison's Spectator,
No. 124.
   By the tenor of this quotation, one has corroborated the
assertion made, that  whatever subjects the literary com-
positions have treated, the writers have had the assistance
of others,  and that they have at their disposal commonly
a voluminous bulk of the same nature, which they pithy
sarcastic term copies of  copyists,  and plagiaries of  for-
mer plagiarians.   The mentioning of his opinion, m  this
occurrence, is only for the purpose of declaring, that des-
titute of either predecessors, or  cotemporary assistance,
it cannot be said, that any thing can be copied from them,
and that one can have imitated or bereaved them of their
genius, and that on this occasion, to impart one's reflection 
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on any matter, one is obliged to make the candid avowal, to
have had recourse to the advice, and the lessons received
at the school of experience.  And  with regard to the
disinterested proceeding, likewise as having had,  in no
time, any practitioner to imitate it, or to copy the pursuit,
it must be declared to prevent the wondering at it, that
its  originality is due to the instruction and imperious
dictate of nature.   Therefore making the authentical
declaration, that, in all  respects,  destitute  of  any other
help and advice, but in the present time such a contemn-
ed master, as the  one giving natural lessons, obedient to
his dictatorial command, none must be surprised, if in
this juncture, one is obliged  again to evince a noted htir-
riness in performing the order  of such a potent ruler.
Therefore by this  new composition, the performance
must  serve to  inform  of the  anxiety which the  author
still has to obey the  orders  of his guiding patron, and if
his over-bearing injunction  is but to  compel a punctual
heart to follow his own impulse, as a  direct agent of the
urging  laws  of nature, to fulfil one's duty, the  do-
ing of it must apprize those who are the main object of it,
that they must consider this  work as a proof of the anxie-
ty that the author has to serve the cause of their own af-
fliction.  Consequently, they must remember,  that what
is the effusion of solicitude and the produce of sensibility,
is  intended only for the use of those who are  endowed
with  tender feeling  and sympathy for their own fellow-
creatures' distress, and whose hearts can lament  at others*
adversity, are those only who ought  to be entrusted to
peruse this deposit of human infirmities.   Therefore, in
this new pledge of the anxiety of  the author, for the wel-
fare, health, and happiness, of the diseased, in the perusing
this last plight,  calculated for their own good, and to con-
tribute to open their eyes concerning the  extensive wis-
dom and capacity of those in the hands of whom they en-
trust their lives  and property, in expectation of being as-
suaged of their pain, and to have their lives protracted,
they must not forget,  that this writing, detecting' the
truth, is a work of private concern, and  consequently not
intended for general  publication,  the  composition being 
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 the one of an heart, in the performing his incumbent du-
 ty that is labouring in the  undertaking under multiplied
 disadvantages,  of which the first one must be computed,
 the want of time.  To demonstrate it, having to commit to
 writing, and to impart the result of reflections made by
 long  and studious experience, and that on  the most im-
 portant subjects that can occupy the human understand-
 ing.   The afflicted, for whose service the work is intend-
 ed, in the reading of it, must not forget, that it  is .done
 partly after the  weariness and irksome labours of the day,
 and that but a  few hours could have been employed in
 the pursuit,  and which are destined to usual rest, and to
 serve to the repose of others.   Aware of the truth if the
 necessity in this circumstance urges to yield to its irre-
 sistible law, it  must induce the perusers to be moderate
 in their censure of this new work, also done without pre-
 tension, and not destined to be submitted to the scholas-
 tic inspection of infatuated pedantry, and likewise to be
 criticised by  insipid  caviling  logical   purist.  And
 moreover, they  must remind themselves, that what has no
 other purpose but to serve  the general interest, is not
 destined to be  submitted to the view of satirical detrac-
 tors, or any invidious professors, or any of a cast belong-
 ing to a science only  useful in the world, but for the li-
 beral  practitioner, which methodical and regular learning
 in this modern happy age, and  the one of  health and
 longevity, the knowledge thereof is only remarkable for
 the promoting of widows  and orphans, and exhibiting
 daily  the festival of funeral solemnities.   But above all it
 must  be  remembered upon this subject, and any other of
 the like nature,  that having a great deal to say, and a great
 deal to do, and  a very little time to spare to revise, to cor-
 rect, and  even  to read twice over what has been wrote,
this candid  revelation must  apprise the  panting  after
 criticism, and the inerrable expert and all faultless fault-
 finders, that provisionally in  this  occurrence,  rude
draughts, and  incongruous sketches,  and unintelligible
canvass,  must be first given and  received, until more.at
leisure one may be  enabled at some  future day to give
finished pictures. 
PREFACE,
AND VxUilOUS VINDICATIONS.
     JtlEFERRING to the most ostensible information,
 if the sentiment had not been implanted in men by their
 all-wise  maker, and  likewise if they had  not  received
 from him  the  peremptory injunction of doing good to
 each other ; to receive this angelical and sublime instruc-
 tion, it is an uncontrovertible truth,  that  to  enlighten
 men in the exercise of their duty, if making use to know
 it of their rational faculties to examine, it is undeniable,
 that the human species should find lessons of charity, giv-
 en to them in the most  minute  and imperceptible pro-
 ducts of the material world, by conspicuously displaying
 on  the  surface  of this globe palpable  proofs  and in-
 numerable plights of  universal  benevolence.   Hence if
 for  the rational species to be charitable to each other,  is
 the particular instruction received generally from the ora-
 nific procreator.   The performance then of such a noted
 incumbency ought to  prevent the wondering of its ful-
 filment, if only  reflecting, that  in the practice  of doing
 good, when besides the yielding to the impulsion which
 ought to be the innate one of the human heart, the action
 of charity done by them, is but the fulfilling of their own
 maker's command.  Therefore, every thing upon  earth
ought to  conspire to  instruct mankind, that are living
upon it,   in the express  purpose of contributing to the
welfare  of their own  fellow mortals' existence.  From 
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whence one must infer, that fulfilling this peremptory duty,
is but to be  obedient to the heavenly injunction.—And,
if it is undeniable, that charity  ought to be the dictate of
nature, it is plainly indicating it to be the implicit will and
law of the universal Legislator.  But as  those supernal
instructions  are  not  sufficient to instruct of  the   real
motives of those,  who  demonstrate to be conscious of
their duty and prevent malicious discreditors, and inter-
ested  views,  influenced by spite from reflecting odium
on the generous actions,  that a perverted selfish  heart
cannot imitate, one must be compelled in this occurrence
to  make new  dissertation  concerning the disinterested
employment  of offering relief to the helpless, afflicted hu-
man race  upon earth, whose increasing distress,  by an
unexplainable fatality, seems to be delivered up in their
life for the express purpose of being tormented and  de-
stroyed in  various manners, and that by  their own spe-
cies.   And to be obliged until death, to strive against in-
calculable infirmities, and manifold diseases, andalsoby the
sinister results of detrimental expedients, and mortiferous
remedies.  Then to acquit the obligation  imposed upon
any human being come into the world, to those venerable,
escaped fragments of the benign hands of modern, regu-
lar knowledge, palpably evincing a superlative capacity.
Some  space of time having elapsed,  since assistance has
been offered to those, whose vital faculties were strong
enough to  go with success  through  the renovating pro-
cess, and the beneficent  operation of the prevailing god,
Mercury's benediction. But by this prolific grace bearing
with them  unequivocal specimens of the incorporation of
the divine metalic specific, and the marvellous prowess,
peculiar to the luminous penetration of  the  auspicious
present time  polar stars  of  human  life.   Not in  pos-
possession  of the ineffable instruction & expedient of those
regular pedagogues and unauthorised, consequently  to
attribute to personal sagacity the effect of  beneficent re-
medies, one is obliged to declare provisionally, that if the
liberal pursuit of offering  relief  to  the suffering human
race,   has  proved  in many instances, to be  attended
with success, the efficacious operation must be attributed 
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 to  the bountiful wisdom of the provident and  omnific
 creator of terrestrial productions, for which inappreciable
 virtues, thanks and glory must be returned by the pious,
 alleviated and true believer  in the sublime resources of
 the  universal Creator  of all things.  Such is  the im-
 pression that those,.who are not purblind by self-conceit,
 must have of the effects produced by the virtues of the
 remedies belonging to the liberal, and omniscient Author
 of  nature.   Not endued with presumption of  personal
 merit, one is constrained to mention it for the purpose of
 preventing making any mistake, concerning the  extraor-
 dinary virtues of the  universal dispensator's efficacious
 remedies.  Not believing their exquisite effects due to par-
 ticular ability, the relating of them is only in the  view, to
 have bestowed on  the legitimate proprietor, the encomi-
 um belonging to his universal beneficence.  But to those,
 who  may  have had chance  by their own experience, to
 judge of the infinite goodness of the common dispensa-
 tor, by the effect of his genuine remedies, if themselves
 evincing an uncontrovertible demonstration of the divine
 capacity in the terrestrial specific of the heavenly healer,
 it must serve plausibly to convince the true believer of the
 bountiful provident solicitude of the universal Father for
 his promiscuous, innumerable children.
  Notwithstanding  the  most  palpable indication  of
 the unappreciable effects proceeding from such  an inex-
 haustless source, that those, who could but refer to their
 own experience  on the subject to assert the truth,  the
judicious,  impartial in the declaration of it, must have
 had the conviction, that their veracity had to contend, in
 the occasion with pertinacious  and numerous wranglers
 and incurable disbelievers, controvertists, and that in the
 defending the efficacious property and  natural production
 of the  one, from whom having the pretence to be faithful
 worshippers  of the  omnipotent  wisdom,  they do  not
scruple to commit blasphemy  by insulting his creation
in their specifical  virtues and to  give vent  to  their
controverting inclination, without being  willing to  exa-
mine, by themselves, the fact, before they indulge them-
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 selves by detracting an insulting individual in possession
 of hidden mystery unknown to any others, and they are
 uncautious,  satiating their malice in  the  occasion, that
 they reflect  disgrace on the omnificent Father's solici-
 tude, and ridicule the undeniable wisdom  of his expedi-
 ent.  But on such  an important matter as the one of
 those, who evince  to be in possession of precious spe-
 cific, so  little worthy to be taken notice  of, in the mo-
 dern time of notorious knowledge, refusing even to re-
 ceive the testimony of evidence, before condemning.  On
 such inconceivable indifference, and lamentable apathy,
 the afflicted and affected observers have the full convic-
 tion that they are  not living in the happy age of human
 preservation, and consequently  that what has any tenden-
 cy to  protect human life,  is not by them deemed to de-
 serve  the attention of the generality of mankind.   Not
 expecting to reform the  prevailing,  destroying  mode,
 and still less not contesting to any body the right of the
 privilege, that they have in indulging themselves in their
 mortiferous fancy,  experience on the subject, more than
 any thing that could be said,  having  demonstrated, be-
 yond the  power of denial, that the want of life, and also
 of existing without pain and diseases, is not the  first ob-
 ject of the general anxiety of the present human race, con-
 vincing to have precious objects to run after, of greater
 importance.
   With those who have  also  been victims by  different
 means, of the little  interest  that the}- sat to  their  lives, we
 are obliged to make some disquisition  on the real advan-
 tage that mankind can receive by offering relief to enerv-
 ated, emaciated, and mutilated  beings,  caused by the fatal
 consequences of their offensive diet, and moreover by the
 application afterward to repair their uncautiousness to
 more noxious and direful remedies.   With those beings
 unaware of the detrimental consequences of making use
 of an unsalubrious diet,  we must definitely  determine the
great benefit that themselves and the generality of man-
kind can receive from  persisting in the attempt Of try-
ing to assuage their pain and manifold  diseases, until the
vital faculties are  entirely exhausted, and that without 
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 giving them explicit warning of the cause of their dange-
 rous maladies, and of the perniciousness for them to be-
 lieve & apply to deadly remedies, more fatal to their bodies
 than even their baneful diseases.  E xpecting that the answer
 would be that no great advantage could be received by
 them, and by the world in general, in attempting their al-
 leviation, without candidly giving then* the full detection
 of the cause of their pain "and diseases, in their concomi-
 tant consequences.  Their answer being  conformed to
 the natural expectation one must have of their ideas on
 the subject, then one must be justified in having already
 imparted the result of experience, based on sedulous stu-
 dy, concerning the pernicious tendency of various articles
 inconsiderately  made use of by the generality of man,
 kind.   On this occasion, stimulated  by the same princi-
 ple of expecting to have promoted the good that ought to
 produce the extending more explicitly the result of experi-
 ence on such interesting subjects, for those  who have the
 wish of being more particularly advised concerning the
 cause of their misery, due to their havingused many articles
 detrimental to the human  body.  Therefore, in "order to
 give  more complete   reflection on  diose important
 matters, having yielded to a pressing  necessity, a supple-
 mental addition was deemed indispensable, "for the pur-
 pose of giving more explanation concerning the motives
 that have compelled a  prescription of the dietical absti-
 nence.    Notwithstanding the favourable  chance again
 that this new printed work can give to malevolence, self-
 ish interest, and insidious contrivance, taking this oppor-
 tunity to have urged in the world the malicious reports of
 lucrative pursuits, and pertinently argue of the considerable
 fortune that shall be made by it. " Although one must con-
 fess  that such perfidious rumour is not very agreeable to
 disinterested views, one might be affected by it, if experi-
 ence had not in all times demonstrated that a heinous  dis-
 position, malice, and all the invetcrated enemies to human
 welfare must find always some pretext to villify those who
 devote  themselves to' the  cause of common good, and
that in  the doing of it for invidious minds is an unpardon-
able crime &, sin to the opponent of human happiness. Anfi 
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it would  prove to  have very  little fortitude, then to be
much mortified by the event that cannot be prevented,
and in the occasion without reply one might leave the
perfidious detractors, and contentious reporters to indulge
themselves in the fancy  of their natural qualities, if one
could suppose every body to be of their opinion ; but on
this occasion, as every one is induced to believe that the
generality of mankind are not endowed with the detract-
ing propensity, and that some among  them, friends of
truth, might be desirous to know  the reality of the mat-
ter, and be intimated with the species of fortune, that can
"be made  by the trying to alleviate human misery in the
manner done till now.    Therefore, to those who are un-
influenced by such insidious assertions as those which are
so artfully spread in the intention of degrading the gratu-
itous  distribution, to those who receive it, and are the pro-
fluent source from which  flows the  pretended fortune,
must be related the fact concerning the prosperity that
can be obtained by the trying to alleviate their complicat-
ed misery.   On that head, it  cannot be denied, that the
leaving them in the impression and influenced by the in-
sidious assertion of malice and detraction, rumouring that
great gain is made by them, is a very unpleasant idea to
leave them in;  for the one who so  zealously and palpably
demonstrates his disinterestedness, and,  so long for then
own advantage, has been spending  (not to say wasting) his
life and wealth in the pursuit of trying to diminish human
affliction.   But to explain to them the cause of such absurd
reports, captiously made at the expense of truth, one may
clearly perceive that the cavilous author have it to spread,
and calculated for the purpose of attenuating the impres-
sion that  the charitable, alleviating distribution ought to
produce and the  odium it undeniably ought to reflect on
the interested friend of human misery, and on the pretend-
ed civilized race, in tolerating the odious traffic, by which
unnatural principle, rational creatures must have a persua-
sion that the receiving fees and rewards to alleviate their
own fellow-creatures' infirmities, by them must be consi-
dered as the most flagrant proofs of human depravitv and
ignorance on one side, and  on the other unaccounta- 
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ble credulity, by which unexplainable cause thinking be-
ings must have concerning its  effect  the  most conspicu-
ous token of the celestial wrath.  Therefore, not wishing to
be suspected of being a passive instrument of the divine
anger, one must not be surprised, if evincing anxiety to
dispel the injurious reports of making gain by human mi-
sery,  and being on that topic, and on the one of making a
fortune by human affliction, notwithstanding that a greater
improbability  (not to say absurdity) cannot be urged to
convince of the reality and accuracy of the assertion.
   We have to  digress briefly, on the manner that tbrtune
can be made in the pursuit of giving relief to the afflicted.
Although for impartial and  intelligent beings, the  vindi-
cation might be deemed useless, as the general human
foible is to judge of others' propensity by their own incli-
nation, and that it  is an undeniable truth, that  in this  age
of speculation  the main object of all speculators is gain,
and that the refined  metallic species are the only foeless
objects upon earth, and that they are the one ofveneration
of all pursuits  and worship.  But not belonging  to  the
predominant corporation, notwithstanding all the endea-
vours of the sectaries to make believe it, one must make
the confession of it, for the purpose  of preserving the
free gratis distribution from being suspected and disgrac-
ed of being guided by  interested motives.  And for the
purpose of informing of it, it must  be said, that, to  avoid
the villify ing suspicion for a number of years, the applicants
for assistance to their diseases, when their number was too
considerable to receive  their complaints verbally, to give
it by  writing, the}' only had one cent to  give to the  one
who  had the charge to  write labels, informing of the na-
ture of the complaints  of those  who  made application.
And  to prevent any mistake on the matter, and also  any
one of being ignorant of the fixed price, a bill with large
letters was stuck  upon the wall, to  aquaint every one of
what  they had to  pay, and advising them not to deviate
from  thiscommon rule. By such precautions and the mo-
derate price of the charge", one ought to have presumed,
that the measure was sufticient to save the free agent of
beneficent distribution from being suspected of  any con- 
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cern in such a profitable employment.  But experience
has proved the contrary, and the" mistake, and that for the
advocates of fortune all means are good, having rumour-
ed and positively asserted that the gratuitous distributor
had a share in such an enormous profit.  But on such ri-
diculous assertion, there ought to be no other vindica-
tion but the one of contempt, if one was not forced, in this
occurrence, to mention part of the means that contumacious
detraction every where artfully has recourse,for the pui-pose
of villifying the benevolent distribution, and the dexterity
that itsWplacable enemies constantly have shewn to black-
en the principles of the one who is the disinterested distribu-
tor of it. And as another proof of the veracity and the inge-
nious allegation of the fortune-makers,the next one must be
cited, as insignificant & as contemptible as its relation shall
appear to be.   No means being neglected by the fortune-
zealots, to increase the riches of the one whom they want to
make wealthy in spite of his teeth, by speculation, the one
of the selling of the phials has been urged by them also, as
one of the most lucrative branches of business, effectually
supporting the charitable distribution.  To be confirmed
in the opinion, one is obliged to reveal that in every place
where the distribution was made to prevent any one from be-
ing overcharged, when they were in want of phials, an agree-
ment generally has been made with those who had the
charge of selling them, at a moderate rate, and the condi-
tion was not to exceed the benefit, that reasonably could
compensate their trouble.  And the profit that has been
allowed them from the first cost was not above two cents
or two cents and an half on  each phial, or thereabouts.
Those who had the  charge  of selling them received the
information besides, that if thev were found not willins.
to keep to the price, some would be sold bv  some others
at the first cost.   And moreover, to convince of the great
advantage that one had by such a profitable commerce to
prevent the applicants from paying them too high, on ac-
count of the circumstances, the one who is urged to have
made great gain upon  the profitable article, when it was
found scarce in the place, to obviate it from distant parts,
those who had the charge of selling the said vessels,  were 
15
supplied and with no other condition, but the one of pay-
ing the amount of the first cost after they had affected the
sale, and besides when they had not finished the quantity
they had received, the remainder was  taken from them
at the first price, to prevent  from being exposed to any
loss.  To  demonstrate also  that the distributor of the
beneficent liquid, did not wish to have  himself thought to
have any interest in the business, no phial  was suffered
to be sold in the house where the generous distribution was
made.  Having taken  all  this precaution, one  ought to
have thought  also not to  have been suspected  of having
any direct  or  inelirect interest in  such  considerable busi-
ness.  On that score experience  has also proved the con-
trary of the expectation, and  that all the precaution was
taken in vain, to prevent the charitable distribution from
being disgraced by the assertion made  that it had a share
in  the profit of the great  speculation.   But as  ac-
cording to  the present mode  of human doctrine,  no-
thing can be done  without gain,  and,  that the  one made
bv the ?_eliing of those phials is veraciously  computed to
be one  of the supporters of the gratuitous  pursuit, and
that to  pretend to persuade of the contrary selfishness,
spite of the disinterested views guiding the proceeding
should  be  useless, obstinately insisting always that every
thing must be done for profit ;  therefore we must pro-
ceed to the great one, that undeniably  must be made by
selling the  aforesaid articles, and to  sum up the great ben-,
efit issuing from the prosperous traffic,  if the gain-makers
and positive asserters had taken the trouble to make in-
quiry of these, who had the lucrative business in hand,
they would have  received  correct information on  the
matter.  Therefore we are obliged to give some idea of
the great   advantage  those  have received  who have
supplied with phials the destitute of them.   And as one
must presume that all those who made  application were
not in want of the articles, making use  of the knowledge
one must have concerning the demand of it, one is au-
thorised to establish the average  of the number sold eve-
ry  day in prosperous times from  eighteen to twenty-four,
and that one may pledge one's self that the computation, 
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if made without exaggeration or diminution of the truth.
Then at  the rate of two or three cents upon each phial
the considerable profit derived  from the lucrative sale,
must have amounted to the exorbitant sum of thirty to
fifty cents per day; such is the great gain to be divided
by the half, that the gainful society could partake, and the
enormous resources by which those of the helpless dis-
tressed are afforded to receive beneficent assistance.—But
as there should be  no end to the relating of the insidious
report, being in circulation concerning the profitable em-
ployment attending the gratuitous pursuit, notwithstand-
ing their contemptuous nature.   Speaking to  those who
only must know the fact, and be candidly informed, that
with regard to the gratuitous distribution, the compas-
sionating to  their helpless state of distress,  is the only
stimulating motives guiding the undertaking:  and as
to the advantage expected from it, the success  is the only
reward-—Notwithstanding the contrary assertion made by
supercilious jugglers, aiming at nothing but to villify the
benevolent pursuit. To vindicate its disinterested intention
altho' one may appear to be too loquacious, but wanting to
have the truth detected, one is obliged likewise to men-
tion some other articles by which the dexterous fortune
makers pretend that great gain can be made.   For the re-
lating of them, one must say, that solely occupied for the
general good, the preventing the diseases of mankind, as
it is said is above the curing of them, by experience, and
study, having discovered that great number of disorders
proceed from the  mouth not being kept in  a salubrious
state.  Therefore, to obviate the danger resulting  from
the neglect, and to prevent any one  from exposing them-
selves  to the pernicious result  proceeding  from the want
of attention in keeping in good order the precious and in-
dispensable instruments preparing the aliments for diges-
tion ; which advantage besides personal cleanliness, as the
one of preserving the finest ornaments of  human nature.
Therefore, to enable any one to preserve and clean those
precious tools,  and keep them in good order, an effica-
cious specific was of an indispensable  necessity.   Then
as fruits of sedulous researches an odontotrijmma,  or 
17
 tooth-powder was prepared whose particular  properties
 were  calculated to whiten the  teeth, prevent them from
 decay and from acheing ; and besides it has the quality.
 to save the gums from being exposed to scorbutic affec.
 tion.  And to engage  any one, anxious to keep in a sa-
 lubrious state the organ of speaking, and its receptacle, or
 the gums,  and preserve the mastigating or chewing part.
 ner in their intended and natural state.   For this purpose,
 the specific, or tooth-powder, has been offered for the pur-
 pose, if not gratis, which would be unpredicable on  the
 account of the expenses, to establish such article, at least
 the low rate to which it was fixed;  the moderation of the
 price, not being hardly one fourth  of the common price
 of such  kind  of powder, was  to convince that it was in
 Order to induce any one to think that there was no inters
 est, but the one of  their own good, and that  no means
 were neglected for the purpose of being useful to those,
 who had anxiety to do as much good to themselves as the
 one to whom they applied, wanted himself to do.  Upon
 such  trifling article that nobody was obliged to purchase
 added to the little demand of it, one ought to have thought
 that it would not have given any opportunity to detraction,
 to argue of this speculative way of making fortune.  But
 on that  topic also, experience has  informed of the mis-
 take, and that such a useful article,  hardly paying the first
 cost has been by malignant intention asserted, that it was
 a very advantageous one, and one 8f the supporters of the
 gratuitous distribution.
   But the insidious principle  of those reports are to glar-
 ing to be mistaken, and it is obvious that they are calcu-
 lated to give false impressions to those who are  obliged to
 seek after the relief they could not obtain from active de-
 tractors.  Upon another most  precious specific they are
 likewise  insinuated to believe, that one indispensable reme-
 dy, and of which every body can enjoy the advantage,  the
 cephilartic, or head-ache  snuff, by the  mediocrity of its
price and its preciousness,  the expense and trouble  of
making of it, one ought to have supposed  that the  low
price, and the quantity that is obliged to be given away,
                          c 
18
would have prevented  invidious beings from arguing of
speculation on the matter.  But experience also has  in-
formed of the contrary, and that the incurable enemy to
human welfare, wanting to increase their caviling corpo-
ration, neglect no means to succeed in their endeavour,
pertinently asserting the great  profit that  is made upon
articles,  that have been sold from four to six cents a box.
But not so blind or presumptuous  as to attempt to eradi-
cate such inveterate and incurable diseases, as the one, by
which are afflicted malice and detraction the relating their
usual  schemes and trying to vilify what they cannot im-
itate is only for the purpose of preventingftheir contagion
from making  great progress  among  those," who de-
monstrate that the beholding their  pain and distress, is a
*iew which they should not like to be deprived of.   And
in this occurrence,  obliged  to  make use of preservative,
in  order  to check the infection  issuing  from impure
mouths,  and venomous tongues, to prove  the solidity of
their assertion, with regard to the  pretended, great bene-
fit  made  by the two  preceding articles, namely,   tooth
powder and snuff, to those, who are tried to be perverted
m their faith, one must tell that, if their former invigora-
tors and the present protectors, patrons of human life and
health had no  other support to keep  them  in splendour
and plenty  and maintain their sumptuous train and ap-
pearance, than the profit flowing from the snuff and tooth
powder they would _fk>n be reduced to the honourable
and splendid condition of starving, tattered mendicants'
And to have some proofs of it and to have the facts corrobo.
rated, if not for the purpose of confounding interested wran-
glers by the sight of the truth, but only to have it revealed t©
those, to whom it imports to have it known.  Then one
must say,  that  to be supplied with the boxes necessary
to receive the two pulverized powders, forced to receive
from  distant parts the said boxes, and wishing to receive
a great quantity at a time, +> j necessary vessels or boxes
by an unaccountable fatality have  been successively, and
repeatedly destroyed  by  fortuitous events, viz.—ship-
wreck, ?sC.  and that as surprising as the amount of the loss
may appear, it was not less  than a hundred dollars and' 
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  upwards, and that-in a little more than a year.  The re-
  lating such frivolous circumstances is only for the pur-
  pose to demonstrate the manner of making fortune, and
  to  defend the gratuitous  distribution  from the malicious
  attacks of  its  enemies,  and make known only to those,
  who it docs concern,  the grc.it advantage  resulting from
  the two  lucrative articles sold, one at six cents and the
  other at twelve, which the whole amount of the receipt of
  one year obliged to be minute and to circumstantiate the
  fact, one must say, that the whole amount of this year will
  hardly exceed  fifty or sixty  dollars,  and the one of the
  present six months, in which this writing is made, will
  not reach ten dollars.  Then such are  the candid proofs,
  that can be given of the  profitable means, which are em-
  ployed by  the one so contumaciously urged by friends o£
  gain, and foes of human good, of being like them in quest
  of making fortune.  But as the sectaries of the prevalent
  divinity for whom all means are legal and good to obtain
  their patron's  favour, to prove it one cannot past silent
  that treating on that scope their neighbours as themselves,
  one is obliged to relate, that in some parts those strenu-
  ous belovers of fortune have had  no scruple to assert that
  the gratuitous distribution had for consociate and benefi-
  cent supporters, all the boarding  houses and public ones
  of the neighbourhood, where it took place, not excepting
 the gambling heroes, and their venerable establishment.
 But, at any time, not having manifested  great anxiety of
 being particularly acquainted with the fabulous reports in
 circulation, which nature could evince, but the ingenious
 dexterity of malice, and stupidity or raging malevolence
 wanting to destroy what reflects shame, light, and dismay,
 upon their  iniquities, one is not enabled to relate what be-
 side may  be spread to vilify the author, and the charitable
 pursuit itself.   But upon those  insidious  rumours, one
 must declare, that their perfidious nature is not suscepti-
 ble of inspiring any other sentiment but the one of con-
 tempt, and that they are  not able to deter nor disgust a
 conscience without reproach & steadily treading in the path
 of its duty, and those, who are  the  only  object  tiiat it
doe. leii to, must b^ acquainted with its aim.  There. 
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fore, in this age of speculation and universal trafic which
has for general doctrine, and strictly followed  the living
upon the wants miseries, blood, and flesh of each other,
and supposing that every one must Have the same incli-
nation, then differing from the common rule, if obliged to
relate the specie of fortune, that experience has for a great
while past  informed that shall be made by the continu-
ance  of offering  relief  to a  multitude of enervated and
emaciated beings, and  on perishable monuments of  the
blissbestowed on the human species, by a privileged sci-
ence,  and  the prevalent favours received by. the trying
to rectify its  conspicuous blunders as one of the first,
must be cited the unexplainable effects of weariness  re-
stating from an irksome labour, added to that the strug*
gling daily against the malignity of  contagious and vari-
egated distempers,  which on that head to tell the truth, if
evincing  not having fallen yet the  prey of their direful
poignancy without  mentioning the  cause that has pre-
vented it,  it ought more than any thing that could be
said in its behalf,  enable to be convinced of the sub-
lime  and  unappreciable resourses that are made use of,
and the genuine  one upon earth obviously  demonstrating
the infinite wisdom and goodness of the  glorious author
of nature.   But notwithstanding their unappreciable and
exquisite  properties,   one  cannot deny  that it  is  not
without the greatest difficulty, if one lias been enabled
with all the riches of nature to triumph over the virulen-
cy of the acute human  contagion.  And to cut short on
the matter, such  arc the predomincnt and valuable advan-
tages, and the fortune acquired by  the pretended lucra-
tive pursuit, which, to  sum them up,  the  first one is the
wasting the bodily faculties,, and added to that,  notwith-
standing the perfidious  declaration of malice, wanting to
make believe to the contrary, the squandering, pecuniary ■
ones.   And now, if we  must relate the secondary advan-
tages acquired by the gratuitous pursuit, as usual,  a prero-
gative belonging to those who occupy themselves of hu-
man good,  must be cited the being wrangled, slandered,
ridiculed,  insulted,  defamed,  and  to terminate, to be
brooked by all disgust, and lavishing one's property, they 
21
 being urged to take the one of others.   Such is the com-
 pendium of the unappreciable advantages,  and lucrative
 benefit, that experience unequivocably demonstrate, that
 are profusely bestowed on the charitable distribution and
 disinterested agent, that active calumny with all its might,
 blunts  its  venomous  stings  on  him, to  atrociously
 blacken his benevolent intention.  Such  are  resumed,
 part  of  the blessing abundantly  received in the  pursuit
 by the   nature  of which,  one  is enabled to   have  a
 proof of the ^ower of the various destinies that every one
 has upon earth, some evincing to have beenbrought upoo it
 for the express purpose of detracting others, dc kming,
 perplexing, and  lacerating  the mind and bodies,  name
 and honour of others  and to enrich diemselves by the
 general  adversity, live by martyrdom and fruits of pri-
 vileged  spoil,  and by  iniquitous deeds acquire an hon-
 ourable title,  illustrious name, remarkable fame, d"ir'-•«',
 reverence,  and superemincnt distinction.   And  ■    .*.
 metrical reverse, exprobation, stigmas, malicious asper-
 sion,  public defamation, are  the graces that commonly
 receive those who dare to demonstrate sympathy  and oc-
 cupy themselves of human welfare.  But as this bliss is
 the common lot, and the auspicious destiny, reserved in
 all ages to the friends of human good, none of then, ought
 to be surprised,  at meeting with the same usual fortune.
 But with regard to this one as .favourable as it is,  a« na-
 ture has given plausible information, that are resources at
 last as beneficent as they may be, might prove inefficacious,
 if continuing until the  vital faculties shall be exhausted in
 running  after the usual  compensation that receive the de-
 voted enemy to human distress,  yielding to su,_l. a vise
 aclmonisher without being disgusted  by tins -common
 mode of  reward,  and  to prove it,  we must try to  save,
 some remaining fragments of the life destined to do good
 for evil, and lor the purpose to those of the  ill-fated, and
 helpless afflicted, the suiilrirg objects, prey of ignorance,
 who  are desirous  to have detected/to them the cause of
their manifold infirmities, one must continue to give thc-m
the result of the experience acquired upon themselves by
sedulous  study, on the origin of  the various maladies. 
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 In proceeding to it, it is an incontcstiblc truth, that t©
 forbid  the use of some articles, that have been found in-
 jurious to the human body, without giving them satisfac-
 tory explanation of the reasons by them should be thought
 ridiculous, being themselves those to whom they are for-
 bidden.  And moreover  when they are suffering by their
 consequences, and seeking after relief, and to leave them
 to continue in making use of the most nefarious enemies
 and the true creator of their distress, would be ungenerous,
 not to say wicked.—Therefore, governed by the contrast
 of those principles, one  is compelled to give them the
 fruits of theory, experience, and practice, acquired at their
 own expense.  Then wishing to make the afflicted reap
 the crop, that they have sown;  concerning the cause of
 their diseases, the observer again and more completely
 must display to their eyes the result of his studious ob-
 servation.  But obliged to relate the fate that has met
 this former  pledge of unabated devotion to the cause of
 human affliction.
   For the purpose, first.  We have  to relate the new
 chance, that the undertaking  has given, to cavil, to argue
 of Fortune-Pursiit, and to have evinced of the reality of
 the prospect; guided by the general interest, and except-
 ing that it should be promoted in proportion of the circu-
 lation  of what was  calculated to be useful to mankind,
 evincing the  anxiety of the wish, to serve the interest on
 at  large,   and thinking  that  by   the detecting  the
 cause of human diseases, one might be more useful, than
 by attempting to cure them.   Therefore, to succeed, not
 having  spared the expences, two large  editions of four
 thousand copies each, have been printed, and forwarded
 afterwards, to some different places, where the gratuitous
 distribution had been made, and where it had been urged
 that its  disinterestedness was  combined to  make fortune
 afterwards by printed work.  Then to have corroborated,
 and the general veracity of the fortune-maker's assertion,
 one is obliged plainly to relate, that after long and repealed
 advertisements in those places, where the gratuitous distri-
 bution ^took place,  for several years, the result of this pub-
lic advice, was, that one copy was ,«oki"»- one piace, and 
23
three in the other.   Such is  the  immense fortune, ac-
cording to this trial, that can be made by printed work.
But this abortive undertaking, of being useful, by giving
salutary advice in every place, that the attempt was made,
the similar success having been obtained, if not regretting
the considerable expences that have been squandered by
the wish of performing one's duty, the noted disappoint-
ment must lead again to the following question, viz. what
good then can the world  receive, and mankind, from an
individual, spending his  life, wealth and health, for die
sake  of being useful to his own fellow-creatures, if the
generality of them contemn and explode his advice, and
having taken no notice of them, what real benefit,  then,
can they receive by  their  being alleviated of their mise-
ries if they will not be acquainted  with  the cause, and
persist  in making use of the article proved  to be their
most mortal enemy.   And if still, they continue to entreat,
the charity of the one, from whom they expect to recervfo
assistance, but if it is incontestable, that friendly advice ir*
time given, could  have prevented the diseases,  of those,
who are affected by them,  if they had received  them, and
could have  saved  the victim  of  uncautiousness from
falling the prey of it.   How can one succeed to give them,
when experience has proved beyond the power of contra-
diction, that in vain, one should try any more to make sal-
utary advice naturally, circulate, concerning the danger
of an unsalubrious diet, or  any other affliction, concern-
ing the detrimental consequences, that can result from die
use of injurious articles, and the vindication of their pro-
hibition, to those that seek after relief.  All hope being
lost,  to succeed on  the matter, for the one who has no
other object inview,but the one,of fulfilling his duty. One
must ask of those, who, are the main object of it, and to
those, who are in the want of the assistance, that, in vain,
they have tried before, to receive any where else, their
own experience having informed them of the abortion of
the attempt. Then one must desire, those afflicted beings,
conscious of the truth to  interrogate themselves,  in this
conjuncture, and ask advice of their own heart concern-.
ihg lus duty towards the disappointment of the one, who,, 
24
 to fulfil his own obligation concerning the bound enjoin*.
 ing every one to endeavour to be useful to each other, and
 having followed this dictate of nature, has not hesitated to
 lavish his wealth, harrass himself and spend his life in the
 trial of  assuaging their  pains and complicated  miseries,
 and to succeed  in the  attempt, has  not been afraid of ex-
 posing his own  frame to all sorts of diseases  & epidemical
 Contagion, issued from infected minds and bodies. To re-
 ceive their answer, giving time to their inward admonish-
 er to cogitate, deliberate,  and give  its own advice to the
 honours of a just and undeceivable councellors concerning
 the step they  have to take towards the one that thevare en-
 treating the help ;  then one has solid ground to expect that
 those, who are in the want of compassion,  must be willing
 to assist the one, from whom they request it.   And hav-
 ing depended  on the good will of those who possess such
 grateful  adviser, one must be justified, if for the purpose
 ottftiifrling one's dirty towards them and mankind in gene-
 ral,  that  not discouraged by the notorious indifference, if
 one has had recourse to  those  who  are governed by the.
 internal director, proning to gratitude, and  consequently
 to assist to fulfil his  task ; the  one of  those, who are
 willing in their  application to return good for good.—
 Therefore, to repair the effect of indifference, apathy or
 the influence of  the power  that the luminous possessor of
 a science, which they, potent craft,  should be sorrow to
 have their servile subservients acquainted with its ficti-
 cious tendency,  and consequendy,  expose  them to lose
 {heir fanatical  veneration for their expedient proved to be
 of a mortiferious nature. Then it cannot be denied that be-
 side the giving salutary advice concerning  the detrimental
 consequences resultingfromunsalubrious diet; it must be
 owned too, that  good can be done by disclosing the artful-
 scheme of those, who are so strenuously  averse to have
light reflected  on the profundity  of their obscure know-
ledge. # And to  the most flagrant ornament of it, and the
still existing fragments of its mortal power, one is left in
the necessity to  have recourse to them, to  help the en-
lighting of others, and not leave them remain to  in their
state of darkness, and perish without knowing the cause 
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 of their distress, and the pernicious tendencies of the re-
 medies to which they have applied for relief to prevent it,
 and with that, lose all the trouble, fatigue & expences of the
 undertaking, one has to request everyone making applica-
 tion  to the gratuitous distribution,  to supply themselves
 whh a monitor of their proceeding;  likewise, giving them
 instruction of the preponderating cause of their diseases, &
 beside, a hint of the exuberant capacity of th^ir former re-
 vivificator  and corporeal despot.   But, notwithstanding
 that the imperious  circumstances and the  good  that can
 result for the community,has compelled to have recourse to
 the indispensable measure, which  nature ought to  have
 been applauded by  the judicious, to have it more approv-
 ed, some digression must be deemed indispensable this
 moment, for the purpose of vindicating the next one that
 has been taken.   Having related that after having employ-
 ed all means to leave the circulation  of the copies of the
 work, to take their natural course ;  having  informed that
 the experiment had proved ineffectual and useless in its
 attempt,  and  the  disappointment  having  compelled to
 recommend to each of  the applicants, to supply them-
 selves with a  book, with a desire of making it circulate
 among their friends & acquaintance. We are now obliged
 to make some disquisition, for the purpose to have elucida-
 ted,if the proceeding could absolutely repair the want of cir-
 culation, that the experience of the trial had proved abor-
 tive.   Upon that matter to avoid the repetition  of what
 had been said before, concerning the disappointment met
 with, but obliged to relate once  more, that by the explicit
 warning one is intimated,  that the  human nature cannot
 stand long,  with success, the effects resulting from such
 a strife as the one having to contend with the fatigue of
 irksome labour, and also against the continued influence
 of contagious distempers, which, if it has been done, it is
 owed to the infinite power and preciousness of the univer-
 sal  dispensator's production, and likewise to the knowl-
edge of his occult remedies, by the assistance of which
one must confess that one lias been enabled to resist so
long the daily  formidable attacks.   But their effects hav-
ing been of late  too forcibly felt to  be induced in  the
                            D 
26
belief, that the frame cannot be worn out. and stand a great
while longer on the same footing.   Therefore, without ter-
giversation on the matter, telling the truth, notwithstand-
ing the perfidious assertions of the enemies of human be-
nevolence, having spent time, life,  wealth, and health, in
the proceeding, and to give convincing proofs of the mi-
raculous resources that the all-good  and  wise author of
nature has repleted the terrestrial hemisphere, for the pur-
pose of alleviating  human misery.  Then one must say-
again, that all means must be employed to prevent the ex-
perience acquired in the undertaking from being lost for
those, who wish to be acquainted with  the cause of their
maladies,  and willing to abstain themselves from detri-
mental diet.  Although the little encouragement receiv-
ed in giving friendly advice on the subject, not to say, no-
torious disgust,but which has not succeeded to rebuke nor
dishearten the one, who is determined to spend the remain-
der of his life, strength, and wealth, in alleviating human
misery, &. in serving the general interest of mankind. This
resolution must be said to be the last one, stimulating the
man who has no other object in view,but the one to promote
human welfare.  But how to succeed in the matter, and
make the remains of days profitable to the world, when time
and resources are so rapidly slipping away, and withtheiu
the bodily faculties, if not by employing the extant resi-
due in laying down new reflection concerning the cause
of human disorders, their injurious diet, and the effect it
has on the system.  But if such is the last duty  to fulfil,
how can one succeed to circulate the writing, or even to
have them read, in  a time  of indifference, and in which
the sentiment of self-preservation is the least object of all
concern and pursuit ?  If there  is no chance of succeed-
ing by natural means,one must have recourse to the one on-
ly left, which is, to have recourse to those who manifest by
their application to have some anxietyfor prescrvingthcir
lives and health.   Therefore, being left in this imperious
necessity, one  must  be justified  in  making use of it,
this moment to make the printed productions circulate,
and  reach  their intended destination,  and to be perus-
ed by those  of the human species, who  arc not averse
t© do good to themselves.and are not also the most  im- 
27
placable enemies of their friend, wishing to do them good,
and help the one who spends his existence and all his facub
ties for their own advantage.   Then to succeed in the un-
dertaking, all  measures  that the necessity does com-
pel to take, must be justified, even if not meeting the ge-
neral approbation ; but one may infer, diat it has or shall
have the one of impartiality, and wanting no other, it must
not excite surprise, if one is obliged to persist in the be-
lief, that more good can be done by detecting the cause
of diseases, than by  the trying to cure them and to re-
lieve the  victims of ignorance of an injurious diet.  Pur-
suaded of the truth, and to succeed to promote the belief,
one is excusable, if henceforth the gratuitous distribution
in the  proceeding has no other object in view, but the
one of giving  or leaving afterwards beneficent advice bv
printed waitings, and make use of the medium of those
of the distressed seeking after relief, and giving them al-
so the opportunity of evincing their sentiments of grati-
tude and  dieir wishes to have an  occasion of retaliating,
in  some manner,  the good that they generously receive
from the gratuitous pursuit.    In compl) ing to the request
how can they evince to deserve the relief,  they are seek-
ing after in a better manner,  than by preventing the mi-
sery of others; and how can they succeed, if not by mak-
ing  read  thai advice, which,  if punctually observed
should  be  preventive  against  human miserv ?  Then
taking  this  occasion to give  such  chance" to those
who are the possessors of sensible hearts,  and  to those
who are endued with feelings of gratitude, and not willing
only to live upon earth,  to indulge themselves in obdu-
rated selfishness.  Then  to those, who are willing to be
useful to society, are  those, to whom were given the
opportunity to do it,  when the number of the applicants
did exceed the one, which the strength of human faculty
could afford to give them any material assistance.  And
as their affluence, last summer, was too authentical to be
controverted,  no  more  than  their inveterated  diseases
which is the case of the generality of the afflicted, making
commonly their application,but after their having exhaust-
ed the skill of their privileged, corporeal rectificators;  and 
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that in the trial of their vital faculties have baffled the po-
tent effects of their mortiferous science, and  resisted the
deadly power of their efficacious remedies.   Therefore
in such a painful conjuncture, as the one of  having such
a multitude of a hundred desperate cases to  try to  allevi-
ate, as thetask was above human strength, then being in the
alternative  to have the choice to  give over the gratuitous
distribution, for want of being able to succeed in it, or to
make  innumerable  number  of afflicted,  leaving their
homes and spending their properties in expectation to re-
ceive the  help  that they were seeking after, but to no
purpose.   Therefore, as it would have  been ungenerous,
not to say iniquitous,  to make those suffering beings,
whose faith depended on the humanity  and smcerity of
the one,  of whom they were entreating the assistance to
prevent them from losing their time, and with it their pe-
cuniary faculties, a resolution was deemed indispensable,
which was then rather to receive indiscriminately all those
who made application without being  able  to do  them
much good.  To put restriction to  their  continuance,
and by that to have a certain test by which the applicants
could give unequivocal proofs of their good will, and wish
to testify their gratitude towards the provident goodness
of the author of nature, by their demonstrating anxious
desire, to serve the cause of the afflicted ht_manity,  and in
making an oblation for the help they receive  from the pro-
duction of the terrestrial Creator.  Then in the intricating
dilemma of not being able to continue the fatigue  of the
painful attendance, without falling the prey of one's devo-
tion, no other  means  being offered, but the one of re-
questing  the applicants, willing to do good for  good,
to supply  themselves with a new  book every month  in
order to make them circulate ; and those, who wrere not
willing to submit to the new rule, or whose case was not
serious enough to continue their  application, would e-
vince it by their not  acceding to  the new condition
and obliged to relate the effect that had produced  the in-
dispensable expedient, one must reveal, that the success
of the touch-stone, by which necessity or gratitude was
to be manifested, the experiment has proved to succeed
beyond expectation, 
tfJO
  But as this indispensable measure,  has given new*5|fc.
portunity to malevolence, and interested detractors, of ur-
ging of motives of cupidity in this occasion, to prove their
usual veracity we have to make  some  disquisition on
the  probability  of  the  matter,  notwithstanding  the
little  impression,  that  the  assertion can make upon
the conscience,  aware of  its  own  duty, and which
think that there is always glory to  be acquired by doing
what can provoke the hatred and rage, and  make  foment
the brain, tongue, and all the power of spite,  and the
 most inveterate  enemies to human good.   Although
in this  circumstance one might  have left, the  captions
opponents of human welfare, to indulge themselves in -their
malevolent  schemes, if the interest of those,  who differ
from their  disposition and making application were not
prejudiced   by the leaving  their  minds  imbibed  with
the malicious impression given  to them by interested de-
tractors.
   But  as it imports  on the  occasion, to  elucidate their
 minds, and not to suffer the charitable distribution  to be
 vilified, by having suspected its pursuit again of sordid
 view we are obliged for the purpose to vindicate it, once
 more, from the new malicious  attacks of  its  implacable
 enemies, which have been made  of late upon it, for the
 purpose of disgracing its intention, by urging of its spe-
 culative motives.  And to prove the probability of thepre-
 tended great advantage received from the urgent measure
 taken,  and  the selling of the books, which give such a fa-
 vourable opportunity to the indefatigable detractors to
 abuse and calumniate the charitable pursuit and  its agent,
 the active  enemy of human good,  having no pleasure
 in this world, but  the one of beholding  and  fattening
 themselves by public adversity,  and denoting, that for
 them the general prosperity and joy is a subject of dismay
 and effectual emaciation.
    Therefore to check such a favourable opportunity giv-
 en  them of disgrasing  the intention of  the benevolent
 pursuit, and to inculcate prejudicial  impression, on the
 mind of those who are left  in the imperious  necessity df
 making application to it, or which they may have  received, 
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or receive infuture by interested perverters, concerning the
new condition determined by urgency, one is compelled to
give a succinct narrative of the facts, concerning the great
gain that has been made, in this 1st year, of the selling of the
books.   Having related already that  solely governed by
common interest, and having had in view no other inten-
tion, but the one of the good that could result  from the
promoting the circulation of the printed advice essential
in many respects,  led in the proceeding by the necessity
of  performing an incumbent  duty,  also to succeed not
having  been stopped by the considerable expenses, that
two editions did require,  there having been four thousand
each, printed at  the same time.   And now to give the
result of the success that the sale of the copy  have obtain*
ed after one year, it must be  said that at this very moment,
not less than the twro thirds at least remain unsold, & that
scattered in different 8c distant places, & w ill be most all re-
turned for want of sale.  Such is the solidity of the bombast-
ic clamour made by captions intention arguing that the sale
of the books will undoubtedly cause the making an im-
mense fortune.  To demonstrate it more plainly being
forced to be more particular,  for the purpose if not of
confounding malicious intention concerning the magni-
tude of their iniquitous declaration,  but at least it is for
the sake  of destroying the  injurious  impression  that
have  received  from  insidious- scheme  those  who
were making application  to believe that fortune is made
by their misery; and, as  according to the version of mal-
ice, the selling of the books is the prosperous  mine  that
affords it.  In order clearly to evince the truth, having
declared already that hardly one third of the eight thou-
sand copies printed,  is disposed of  in  different manners,
and diat all the rest unsold is scattered in different parts,
and that they must be returned, passing silent all the ex-
penses to no purpose  ; then the third of them,  according
to the usual veracity Of the pertinent and veracious for-
tune assertcrs, this very third then,  must be the one that
has brought  fortune and to  be certain of it, out of its
number must be taken, the  copies that have been lost, in
different maimers, given away, damaged by travelling, &c. 
31
 Then out of the neat receipt mus* be taken, the carriage.
 backwards and forwards, die costly advertisements, the
 commissions,  which in some places,  have not been less
 than twenty per cent, and which asserted as a favour, the
 common rule being generally forty per cent, on such oc-
 casion.   But to cut short on the  matter,  to detect the
 odious fallacy, urged by caviling  malevolence, arguing
 diat  great  gain is made by the printed  prescriptions.
 Without extending the matter, one must say, what could
 palpably be proved,  that the full total amount of the re-
 ceipt of this year deducting the indispensable expenses of
 the sale,  carriage, &c. the fact is, that the sum is not suf.
 ficient to pay the paper that has  been  bought on purpose
 for the use of the impression of the work.  But in the cir-
 cumstance as disagreeable & disgraceful as it is found to be
 tedious, minute, loquacious,  and prolix, for the purpose
 of vindicating the gratuitous  distribution from the contin-
 ued aspersion of its furious enemies, one would  not relate
 them so particularly, if they were not calculated to vilify
 the charitable pursuit, and  make believe in its  agent cu-
 pidity,  and alienate the  regard that helpless distressed be-
 ings must have for the genuine remedies of nature, after
 their having tried  in  vain, the mortiferous resources, and
 fictitious knowledge of their pretended restorers.  But in
 this age of selfishness, venality, fraud, in shape of specula-
 tion, when all the eyes and desires are gaping, and panting
 after riches.  To this prevailing rage  of  making profit,
 must be attributed the general pertinacity, preventing any-
 one  to  believe, that disinterestedness  can exist  upon
 earth.  Gain in all professions, being the characteristic of
 the present time,  the general motto,  guidance and hope
 ©f all  action.  To prove the utter deviation  from this
 common rule, notwithstanding the long and obvious proofs
 given of it, which ought to have been sufficient by their
 nature to prevent the benevolent distribution from being
 assimilated to the  generality  of gainful  pursuit.   But
 as it seems that what has been done until now to inform
 of it,  seems to be of no purpose to persuade of the  truth
it  appears. by the surprise  it  causes,  that   disintere
Stednc-S  in  fulfilling  one's duty is  a phenomenen, 
which none is willing  to believe to exist, by the novelty
of its nature, denoting in this circumstance,  to puzzle
numbers and exasperate the rage of others;  and one may
suppose of those to whom the gratuitous proceeding by
its principle forcibly reflects glaring argument of a cupid
perversity on the offended of it.  But in this occasion if
selfishness, aVarice, and insatiable thirst for metal ic sub-
stance, and spite manifest to be re-united with  calumny,
making use of their engine to batter until total destruc-
tion, the charitable pursuit and strenuously continue to
assert   of its  being  supported by  the  benefit that  is
made  on the afflicted.   This moment if not for the sake of
tliose furious interested detractors, but only of the one  of
those  who  must know the truth  of the  source  from
whence has flowed the principle supporting .the gratu-
itous distribution,  for the puipose of dispelling the in-
jurious impression  that  may  have deceived  those  to
whom it is delivered,  from being prevented to have gra-
titude  and veneration,  for what necessity compels  them
to have recourse, if not in the intention of exciting the
distressed to  have reverence for the instrument or agent
of their alleviation; but at least they must know, that
they are bound to give  thanks and glory to  the  wise
and provident author that has afforded efficacious means
to succeed  in their relief.   And  as averse as one may
be,  to seek  after encomium by vain  ostentation  in
case of success,  but in this juncture  left  in the peremp-
tory necessity  of vindicating the charitable help offer-
ed by  the sublime resources of the omnificient wisdom
of  the universal contriver,  and   forced to defend his
precious offspring from being suspected to be deliver-
ed for  the sake of feeding  sordid cupidity.
  To  inform  of the  contrary,  if what  has been said
concerning the matter, in which could,  if not  influenc-
ed  by  insidious report,  specially  demonstrating the
truth which evidence  cannot  leave any  ground to sur-
mise in the least the  alleviating pursuits of  interested
views, and of  making gain  by the  effect of human
misery, abhorring  die only suspicion,  and constrained
to inform of  it, one  must say,  that in opposition  to 
,->rt
gain, as incredible as it may appear to selfishness, greedi-
ness, and all  the lovers of wealth, longing after nothing
else but profit, diametrically differing from those Plutus's
fervent  worshippers, and to prove it, it must be revealed
in confidence to  the afflicted victims who  have paid  so
dear for the fictitious service of ignorance, the reverse of
them they must know that the charitable distribution,  to
which they apply, and which malice and calumny join to vi-
lify, and accuse of making gain, by what is freely delivered
to them.   Then one must say, that what is detracted and
asserted of making profit, has been solely supported, in all
time, by independent and considerable properties lavished,
to maintain the expenses, and that the assistance which has
been so liberally offered to the afflicted and in want of re-
lief, has been maintained by private fortune, and indepen-
dent resources, instead of the common mode of receiving
the property of others.  Such is the candid truth detected 8t
which could  be proved beyond the power of  denagation,
if necessary ,by which could be evinced the usual veracity of
invidious reports, common scheme  of detraction, con-
tumaciously urging of lucrative pursuit.  And moreover
if not for personal motives, but for the one of preventing
to have  vilified the provident bounty of the divine Author
of universal benevolence, and prostitute the virtue of his
specifical remedies.  Having recourse to such occult dis-
pensary, disinterested in its distribution, imitating such a
beneficent  example, but  reduced to  mention part  of the
sacrifice made to convince of  the omnipotent  wisdom
and the conspicuous charity which does distribute it.  To
what has been said must be added, that notwithstanding the
considerable expenses unavoidable for the purpose, it must
be also revealed that they are mere nothing in comparison to
the losses experienced  by the being constrained to neglect
one's business, & to them having ahvnys preferred to serve
the general interest, and the cause of human affliction. And
to inform of it, one is obliged to relate, that what was des-
tined to serve to the relief of human misery, has been left
dispersed   in  different parts, in the hand:; of  embezzle-
ment, and  left at the discretion of ulcerated consciences,
havinar been kept too busily occupied of the human good, 
..4
 ;,5id of Laborious occupation, to have •been enabled to inter-
 fere   by just  cktim   to "oppose lucrative    scheme
 of making speedy fortune and also without trouble.   But
 to prevent any mistake on this occasion, which the relat-
 ing of this truth might create, it must be said, that the re-
 lating of it is not in the view of expecting applause and
 encomium for one's devotion to  the human cause—they
 being forced to declare the fact to those who are the only
 object of the multiplied,  sacrifice made in their  behalf, is
 to inform them that, if not  regretting-time, pain, and ex-
 penses, and health, for the purpose ofcontributing to their
 welfare   and the  afflicted,  they, must be acquainted,
 that it must be very mortifying for their disinterested allevi-
 ator,to be deprived of the means ofvindication,which should
 let them remain in the degrading opinion, that a vile sordid-
 ness is the only stimulus to which they must be indebt-
 ed for their beneficient relief.  And in expectation that the
 disclosure of the truth given to those whom it does concern
 in this occasion then the candour must  give  the hope that
 it shall dispel in their mind, the disgracing idea by which
 should be prostituted the infinite wisdom, and beneftcency
 of the universal Benefactor. Therefore, to prevent the in-
 jurious impfession, which the sectaries of affliction have re-
 ceived,having imparted to them the real truth, which tenor,
 one must expect, is sufficient to prevent their minds from
 being unhallowed by the receiving in it the perfidious sug-
 gestion of malignity and odious detraction—And cleared
 from  prejudices those who Lave been chosen to be the
 confidents of the means, from whence have and  still now
 flow the  necessary resources, by 'which relief is liberally
 offered to them.  Then having such a pledge of the be-
 nevolent intention and disinterestedness of the calumniat-
 ed distributor to help him, to vindicate himself,  and give
 him chance to extend and promote  his power  of doing
 good by salutary advice, one must expect, that, stimulat-
 ed by  the natural sentiment  of gratitude, it will be evinc-
ed by the generality of those who make  application to the
generous distribution, and that they will be found willing
toco-operate  in serving the design of the one who has no
other view and interest, but the one of doing good to the 
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human species.   And how can he succeed to be beneficial
to promote and extend the benefit that society can receive,
if not by salutary advice, and detection of the detrimental
article, injurious to the human  body, & forwarded to those
who are unaware of the danger? And by givingthem chance
of serving to vindicate their benefactor,  and the helping
to expose to light the atrocious fallacy and villanous inven-
tions of calumny, contrived by indefatigable detractors,
from whose infected minds Scmouths cannot be issued any
thing else but contagion, lies, stigmas, defamation, and in-
iquitous vociferations.   And to retaliate in some measure
the  service  that  the benevolent distribution  has  done
them, in what manner can the  benefitted testify  their gra-
titude towards the immortal, provident, universal Dispcn
sator, if not  by serving to expose to  light  and to con
tempt  of the impious,  frantic blasphemies, of odious
despisers of the product of his wisdom, and also of hU in-
exhaustible goodness ?  By the advantage that they have
received from the wise creator's genuine production, the
palpable monument of his beneficiency,  must  be bound
to defend them  and their virtue from  being vilified, ca-
villed by malice, and the implacable enemies of God and
man and human welfare.   Notwithstandhvg the iniquitous
declaration of them, and of the profit made by the gratuitous
distribution,  to pfo\e their accuracy, it must 'oe said, that
all the rich'-s of the world, even if the  distributor by the
effect of his liberality war_ reduced.to penury and destitu-
tion, none cf those worldly objects of all pursuit, could
tempt him and induce  him to  make a breach to his insu-
perable disinterested principle.  Not withstanding the fu-
tility  and  reluctance  of the  revelation,  as it imports to
have the truth known  to  the judicious, and that to suc-
ceed in it, no other means r:rc left, but the one made use of
those, whom, alVr their havin;.. experienced the advantage
of the remedies of their former wise rectificators, by the c/Vi-
cacious potent effects of which, they could neither be cured
nor killed, and conscque'.Iy now  <-"''.bled by the trial to
judge themselves of ti.e  diftcrcncc of expedient-, and also
by their own testimony support the fret, when necessity
compels to take thci*  m-'dinuY (o !nve ^"^ known auc! 
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credited.  Then  to those whq arc compelled to seek for
relief and self-preservation, after having succeeded to ob-
tain what was the object of their anxiety was (& who could
be more proper to be employed for the purpose of inform-
ing of the  tenor  of the preciousness of the resources of
nature ?) then they are mean while add to that to vindicate
the distributor of them, and instruct the, unadvised of their
unavoidable danger,  when in expectation of diminishing
their own misery, they apply to baneful remedies, more dan
gerou s even than their own diseases.   To these benefits for
die community, resulting from a diligent and industrious
circulation among the well-minded, must be added the one,
that the active  circulators receive from preventing their
friends, relations, and acquaintances, &, all those whose lives
are precious too, from making use of articles detrimental to
their system, and the effectual creator of their pain and com-
plicated miseries.   Yielding to those multiplied  services,
that the grateful alleviated can render to their own species,
in retaliation of their own ameliorated state of health, and
assuage of pain.  One must be authorised to expect  that
the grateful benefitted cheerfully will embrace this oppor-
tunity of returning good for good,  and that the urgent
measure giving them chance to do it, by the human weLU
wisher, will meet with the general approbation.
   Also, if one cannot believe to obtain the universal  one,
but depending  on the good will of those, who are willing
to pay their tribute to the compassionating  omnific su-
preme Being, to whom they must only be indebted, and
attribute the efficacious virtue of specifics that have suc-
ceeded in alleviating their pain and maladies.  The fa-
vour  of such omniscient power and his goodness, must
make believe to obtain  the  assentment and help  of the
alleviated.   Therefore, on this occasion, we jiaveto  pro-
ceed to the engagement, that necessity united with  the
prospect  of  usefulness,  impose  upon  the rescued
From pain and  distress,  to fulfil  for their compensation,
and  also we have to relate  the obstacle that experience
has informed that undoubtedly they must meet  with, in
their attempt to acquit their debt bjr trying to contribute
to the circulation  of  dietical  advice  in its vindication. 
37
And as first hindrance relying on the said experience ac-
quired on that topic, one cannot deny  that they have to
struggle with the general apathy, or against the indiffer-
ence  of life, which has reached such a pitch in the latter
age, that the indulging noxious practice,  fancy, and de-
praved  pallet, and such like, is by the  living human spe-
cies found preferable to enjoy, than the anxiety of pre-
serving their frame upon earth and likewise to have their
bodies  free  from  pain, and continued diseases.  One
cannot deny  that such want of self-affection must be pre-
ponderant objections  to the  circulation that the afflicted
are requested to promote.   If only reflecting that to re-
commend the use of a salubrious diet, is to forbid what
is detrimental to the body, & the very use of which is dear
to the accustomed, and that what is the most pernicious to
be made use of, are the very things most fashionable and
belo.cd in  which habit has become a second nature for
the addicted.   And consequently  a ery few can be found
willing to deprive themselves of their relish and sportive
amusement, and likewise wishing to read what the result,
knowing before hand that it is intended to controvert and
condemn the dear objects of their inseparable predilec-
tion.   And from  their attachment to gratify themselves
in the only real enjoyment, as they assert, that they have
upon the earth, strong propensity must be  computed, as
powerful objecious.that the zealous, wishing to promote the
recommended circulation, must be by them found to be an
effective one.  And one cannot deny that it must be great
opposition to the success of the circulation, with those who
are so strenuously^ attached to their practice, & wilfully con-
tinuing in their habit, make glory of suiciding themselves.
But as the prevailing fashion is an incontestable testimo-
ny of the modern age,  happiness, and anxiety of life, by
which the refined principles  of  promoting felicity,  ha..
left to the inhabitants of  this world, the laudable faculty
and privilege of destroying themselves and others without
opposition.   Not  contesting any one tiicir right,  one is
obliged to acknowledge, that this predominant mode of
self-destruction must be a great hindrance to the recom-
mended  circulation.   Nevertheless the prevailing prac- 
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lice by its tenor, demonstrate thai; the modern opinion is,
that many have the belief, that they come to the world,
for the express  purpose of destroying themselves  and
others.  The prevailing mode in this occurrence, serves
to evince that there is a diversity of sentiments in that re-
spect ; others thinking that their duty and obligation of
life, are to advise their fellow creatures, that their days,
by the author of them, are intended to be spent  in being
useful to themselves and their neighbours, and endeavour
to protract their lives for the .purpose.   And by this dia-
metrical difference of sentiment and employment, one may
infer, which one by the supervisor, are the ones, that are
deemed the most that have fulfilled his commands.
   But not supposing that the generality of mankind, are
unaware  of the  debt, that  they have  to pay  upon
earth to the ones of the conscious of their duty,  must be
entrusted the advice by the assistance of which,  they can
be acquainted with the enemies of their lives, and the one
of their health,  by which they can be  help  to fulfil the
intention of their own Maker,  and also to perform the
task of their existence.  But to this small number of the
conscious of the duty they  have to  fulfil,  in their  lives
must be attributed, the want of success of the circulation.
And to relate another potent obstacle must be  added the
popular and insuperable influence tiiathave over their sub-
missive subservient sectaries, the corporeal divine, or the
liberal ineffable and formidable health dispensator, by their
effectual and political coalition, calculated to prevent their
faithful devotees, and all those belonging to dicir sacred and
universal corporation from being exposed to receive nndoc-
trinal impression,  and to have  their minds tinged with
controversial opinions revealing to them the  shameful
bondage  of their bodies and the monstrous price also they
pay for it aud  their refined manyrdom.   And likewise
intimatim;  them with  the extnwa^mt  madness  of those
exclusive mercurial, sputative, slabbering, driveling, tor-
turing expedients  which for their excellency, cannot be
compared but to the ridiculous faith, of the votaries.  In
patiently  submitting  therr-clves to *-uch  a lon^mimous 
39
 excruciating death, thinking by their being assimulated to
 a barometer, to be effectually purified, revivified, refrige-
 rated, and also invigorated.  To such heretical detection
 one must account for the insurmountable obstacles that
 those who are willing to keep up to their engagements
 and serve the cause of their own suffering fellow mortals,
 must be  attributed the objection  that continue to find
 those who endeavour to facilitate the circulation among
 the unchangeable and strenuous believers in their patrons'
 sublimity of wisdom  so that fascinated  in their faith pi-
 ouslv, they explode the revelation that can  be made  to
 them, of the heterogenous am1 efficacious virtues of the
 triplicated specific employed by their purifying master,
 which part they avenge and defend the exquisite and in-
 finite properties,  and the prevailing grace of the  salivating
 fugacious,  morbific, pugnatious, metallic  god of physic
 and of efteciu.il revivification.   And as co-partner of the
 divine liquid met.:! must be cited the furiously supported,
 besotted, and admired for its incomparable lulling vir-
 tues, the superlative somniferous precious cream of reme-
 dies, or to give it its deserving designation, supreme gum
 of poison, so that the zealous and arduous protector of
 their tutelary benefactor, admirers of their marvelous ex-
 pedient, serve as a shield to  its  attack and bravely and
 intrepidly uphold its wisdom, and ardently predicate also
 the  bliss  received  from the phlcbotomical,  enticing,
 revivifying, purifying, benign goddess,  and jhe sensible
 •Yittelite of the muniferous divinity, give to every one the
 serviceable recommendation to have their bodies cleansed
 by repeated venesection, copious miauiion, or to be plain,
 the abundant  blood evacuation.   But -.uch k the enthu-
 siasm of those partisant zealots for the miraculous antido-
 tal remedies oi their bene ficent patror viatthc conf.ovcr-
 tist's si_rht and contradiction, raise their boil in a boiste-
 rous storm of exasperation, and that  to those  fanatic of
 the medical profes. ion, to contest to oppose or speak to
 them of en.., version, is to increase, inflame their brains and
 deserve their animadversion, and excite it to give vent to
their venomous aspersion  and  difuse of anathemas show-
 ers of virijk-:?j_ malediction.  S' that the ra-h infidels for 
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fruit'of their contradiction receive the liberal and exube-
rant donation of the pious sycophant, physical impreca-
tion, when in  endeavouring to promote the controverting
circulation, if falling with the admirer of its wisdom and
perfection and the fulfilment adherents  of the sensibility
and affection of the liberal, paternal,  eternal best0wrer of
invigoration, for whom to attempt to alienate the uhshaka*
ble veneration must  become objects of ridicule, scorn,
calumny and detestation, and be execrated by the whole'
cabal, martial, liberal, legal,  dogmatical, physical, valua-
ble, notable, surgical, mercurial, paragogical, phlebotomi-
cal, and all the ineffable, inerrable, unappreciable, servic-
able, charitable, human life essential, beneficial, renovat-
ing, protracting to perpetuity, giving ineffable longevity.
Therefore  their  unconquerable vassals,  by  all  trials,
give proofs incontestable of  being unalterable in their
refusal to have the perusal of their reverential, imperial,
prejudicial offer to their visual, organical, and all the loy-
al,  obedient,  flatulent maccllents unanimously give the
proof oftheir being unshacable, irreccncileable to the imor-
thodoried composition dismal,  and heterogenal, and  for
end final, argumental,  dictatorial, inergical, issued from
the majestical tribune!, nosological, didactical,  clenical, is
that the work despisab.c for  its merit intrinsical, is deem-
ed most notable capital and detestable, & master-piece non-
sensical, for which the ruth leaf, logical, -critical, schismat-
ical,and for his notable ..- unveftial crime into!erable,incom-
parable, against  the legal power inviolable, of the patholo-
gically sological, iiicrrr. bI2,l y:r.1_tomatical,inathematical,
& all the total, corporeal, monarchical, integral, magnificiar
regal—then the impartial, judicir.l, equitable in  their de-
cretal against the uncxpiable'," crimmai, ironical, satirical,
for his sin capital,   unworthy  the  pardonable,  royal,
physical, & iheiisvmp\itht_ticaiti-ibunal--ph;ebetomical,"the
magisterial, synoclal, temporal, logical, as doomed the no-
table, incomparable,  heretical, for his prolifical scandal,
snrcastical  against the mystical, scientifical, sempiternal,
to leave the snore terrestrial, and be expelled to the eternal
region, infernal.  Depending on the benign intention and
wish of the Almighty, human life,  sensible rulers,  wise 
41
 protectors, one cannot have any doubt, but that their san-
 guine desire should like to have the above fiction realiz-
 ed, and those who are  desirous of telling the truth con-
 cerning the grace that they may have received by their
 former application, having abjured from their orthodoxy,
 must have to strive against numerous adversaries, when
 their anxiety is manifested, in  the attempt of testify ing
 their gratitude by trying  to promote what is intended to
 serve the common interest, which the  trial must expose
 them to  meet with  multiplied captious antagonists, for
 whom they not being admirers of their life, the tutelar
 guardian  angel;  and also, if not partial to  their liberal,
 doctrinal profession, for those  litigious hectorians, their
 defenders, is a crime for them of the first magnitude. But
 if not expecting the applause of either the master or their
 zealous satellites, those who have the one of their own
 conscience must be satisfied, if only having  the praise of
 such an undeceivable ruler; but finally to relate the pe-
 remptory reasons  that  have  compelled  to take the
 measure to request the applicants to have a new book ev-
 ery month, as the wranglers watching after opportunities
 to give vent to  then spirit of detraction, are very pos-
 itive, on this occasion,  in asserting that there are spe-
 culating motives in the resolution, one must not be afraid
 then to make repetition of what has been said, and also of
 being too minute on the matter, if not for the purpose of
 confounding iniquitous imposture, and to give light to its
 aspersion, but it must be in the view to demonstrate the
 truth to those to whom it  is indispensable to have  it ex-
 plained.  According to the accurate assertions of those
 equitable beings, the measure was calculated to promote
 the selling of the books, if what had  been  said  before,
 which ought to be sufficient to inform of the contrary, and
 that it was by the impossibility of being of great service
to the excessive number of applicants wanting relief, and
with it being unable to stand any longer their painful atten-
 dance, to have  the truth corroborated, and also  the one
that there was  no self-interested motives in the proceed-
ing, it was clearly evinced, by its having, as soon as it
took place, diminished  to  one  half the number of those 
42
who made application, and consequently must undeniably
have diminished the sale of the books, which candidly has
gradually continued to disincrease in such a mannfet that
it has been reduced one to ten. before the measure took
place.   Then if the anxiety of selling those books had
been 'the main Object in contemplation, as it is pertinently
asserted by contumacious detractors, one would have al-
tered the measure ; and one would not still persist in  it,
When it is proved  that by some reason or otJier,  those,
who, affected of diseases, or those vvho have made applica-
tion, denote to decline, to comply t©  such a rule.   But as
necessity has compelled to it, and also the interest of those,
who are willing to reciprocate as much as they can, some
good for t!he one they have received, by helping thccircula-
feonof what is delivered to them, which is either received
gratis or Otherwise, must and mil continue to be the first
condition of their admittance; and if the regulation lessens
the number, one cannot pass  silent,  die undeniable advan-
tage thatthose who  remained can receive or have received
by having complied to the urgency, which must be acknow-
ledged by them, that they  have tlie chance of being better
attended. And, if it is the case,thcy must be induced to ful-
fil the condition of their admittance &the one of their allevi-
ation, & to them, in remembrance of it, having already rela-
led^ffiat the last task or duty of the charitable distribution to
perform, was to give to those who indicate to have aaxie-
ty for life, trie result of the experience required in die pur-
suit.  And  to fulfil such an  incumbent duty, how could
it fee done,  if not sparing pain and  expences in the at-
te^ript;  and having already  mentioned the impossibility
of ttiaking  circulate,  whatever could have report to the
subject, in the usual manner, which one must  attribute to
either prevention or a powerful influence.  If  one can-
not depend  upon the  good will and  assistance of  tliose,
who must be bound by their gratitude, to become the best
resource left to the  benevolent undertaking to leave frag-
ments of its acquired experience how can it bedouc?  Not-
withstanding all the formidable opposition 5c impeachment
te prevent the resolution to  take place,  with those who must
be the assistant to it, we have t^ expostulate this lustcxTxr.K- 
4$
ent left tfr prevent them from condemning what necessity
does compel, and to prove it, wc have to suppose that unaMe
to attend the multitude of the applicants seeking after re-
lief,  one should be obliged to circumscribe the number
and reduce it to two hundred for a season which, quantity
cannot be denied to be considerable enough, if one con-
sider tha£ the generality of \hsm> comes after their having
exhausted  their bodily faculties in the trial of previously
having applied  to remedies, even more injurious to.$kem
than their complaint.   Then to this determined number
giving to each a book of prescription, which could sgf ve
t&em for all die time they sWdd like to continue,, and. as
their common  disorders are generally of such inveterate
nature, or their debilitated state so great, that it wouk) nol
require less than several years of perseverance to obtain the
sta^e of health which they expect to receive from the gram-,
itous distribution,& also supposing that the same distribu-
tion should remain for several years in one place. In such
a conjecture, which experience has and will give numerous
instances of tlv* like, to those who  might be of the  num-
ber of such inveterated cases, one must ask what oppor-
tunity then should have the anxious distributor to,  m&^e
circulate the work of his experience  & advice, & what is
intended to serve the general interest, and in the intention
done with a great d^al of labour and expense, & bjy which
the benevolent pursuit c.:pected to have a chance to fulfil
its last duty, if none but the two hundred above jventi,oned,
take each one book, by which they should l>c allowed to
make application for  several years.  Therefore, as such
a channel could not be sufficient, one must be excusable,
to have recourse to othep expedients, in order to termi-
nate this last duty,  which,  notwithstanding tlie little ap-
probation that it must expect to meet with in its perform-
ance, persisting upon it, moreover, one must be justified
in the proceeding, consklerfcig. that successive composi-
tion must be deemed mdispeosalpie to give a complete re-
sult of experience, even if not attended with full success.
The first work not being any great inducement to attempt
to make  any others, and squander one's, property to have
them printed, and be supposed to  mak'ea forfmc, when 
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of the last one, out of eight tliousand remain now extant
at least five thousand five hundred, and those scattered in
many places, and what shall become of them, and all the
others succeeding, is what we cannot tell.  But if one is
forced to relate such frivolous circumstances, it is to de-
monstrate more than one should like  to tell, if not com-
pelled by the insidious report of malice,  and to  evince
that there is no such thing as lucrative  views in the under-
taking of printing and distributing the various  detection
and vindication, for the  use of applicants and others.
   But if such a notorious disappointment,  and all the ex-
penditure left behind, have not disgusted  and prevented
the one, who has no other object at heart  but the one of
fulfilling his duty, then what better proofs could be given
to demonstrate the scheme of malignity, and also  to elu-
cidate the eyes of impartiality, that there  cannot be  the
least colour of pretence left to think, that there is no oth.
er interest in the proceeding but the general one.  Not
sparing, at this moment, neither trouble nor property to
accumulate and add new expenses to the former one, and
which, by all appearance, will require great while to re-
cover, if ever they can be so; but without being guided by
any private consideration, (and quite  contrary, when the
one of being useful is  the  only stimulus directing  the
pursuit,) it must make  it persist in  making use of all
means to  succeed in the occasion, and insist to propagate
the good that can be produced by the circulation of the
above  mentioned work.
   And for the purpose constrained to answer all the ob-
jections made to impede the circulation in the perusing
the work of prescription, if not for the purpose of extoll-
ing its merit, which is intended to have the one of useful-
ness ;  but to have some allowance made  for its nature,
as many obstacles have  been made to prevent the read-
ing of it, among them, it has been alleged that the peru-
sers cannot understand the most part of the meaning and
also the words that are employed  in the composition.
One cannot deny, that this inconvenience  is the greatest
one for those,  who are not versed compleatiy in physical
lexicography.  But obliged  to vindicate the objection. 
45
One must ask, how such a difficulty could be avoided, and
how it could be possible to have made use of expressions
that could have been  generally known, and likewise of
words, that  could have been familiar to every one, when
treating of unknown subjects,  and hidden arts that have
dialects peculiarly adapted to their purpose,  and which
without  making use of the original names,  and literal
sense one could not be intelligible to any body whatever,
and besides it would be absolutely  impossible to speak
of  things without making  use of  the words that have
been created for the purpose.   Notwithstanding that one
must acknowledge that there is some  ground to complain,
for those, who will not take  the trouble to consult intend-
ed interpreters,  which they  find in applying to a lexicon
or dictionary.   But to dispel  these unfounded objec-
tions, and vindicate the pretended obstacles,  that ill will
may have recourse to, one must ask  of those who are at-
tached  to their  existence,  and all those whose lives and
health, and  the anxiety of lx*ing also acquainted with the
precious  wisdom and excellency of the remedies and
marvellous  prowess of those wtiose liberal practice, and
inviolable privileges so despotically set such  moderate
price to their mortal halucination or  fatal blunders, one
must continue to ask of those  who  are not fascinated by
insidious science.   If stimulated by sentiments of self-
preservation, disclosing the truth to their eyes, what sub-
ject then  ought  to be  more interesting and  excite their
curiosity, and deserve their application, their attentive
study, more than the instruction of the danger of making
use of different articles, injurious to the human body, and
those, that  are destructive  to their constitution, and the
effectual perpetrator of their pain and miseries, and when
all these advices arc given by a disinterested being, whose
devotion for the  human good, and the interest of their ex-
istence  has  made him contemn all the  danger  and  fa-
tigue for the purpose of giving them relief, andnow to give
them the final result of his studious and unparalleled ex-
perience.  Therefore from those deserving considerations
one must expect that those  who  are stimulate*1  by the
anxiety of life to them,the novelty of words, and the ambi- 
46
 §uity of expression, *a which one lias been obliged to have
 recourse for the purpose of convincing them of the ficti-
 tiousness of a science disguising its ignorance by the mul-
 tiplicity of its crafty words, and bewildering expressions.
 And to have such a truth evinced if their technical terms
 are not found to be levelled to every one's knowledge,
 but such unavoidable inconvenience, tar from being mat-
 ter of disgust, to those who are anxious to be-acqqainted
 with subjects which ought to be the dearest one of tiieir
 concern, the difficulty for them ought not to be matter of
 objection to the reading, what is intended  to open their
 eyes, & chiefly calculated for the general good.—And if all
 these considerations, combined to contribute to promote
 the human welfare, and which so intimately are connect-
 ed with human interest and  safety, and* if such important
 matters are not deemed by them to be worthy of any at-
 tention, one must ask, then, which must  be thought to
 deserve to be taken notice of, and more so, when the hu-
 man present living specie is found so conspicuously and
 universally exhibiting upon earth, and that for want  of
 knowledge, the deplorable  picture of population, solely
 occupied in reciprocal destruction directiy  or indirectly,
 and % the  influence of the  bodily diseases,  implying the
 one of mind, and in reality the present generation making
 progress in nothing else but degeneracy, represents but
debditatedJnvalids, feeble, weak, and emaciated valetude-
 narians, and to cut short on the matter, and frankly tell
 tlit truth to those who are themselves obvious specimens
 of its accuracy.  Notwithstanding the common presump-
 tion and emphatical declaration of fictitious science, con*
 cerning the particular, human state of health and exist-
 ence, the beholder is obliged to sustain the  view of a sad
 nomenclature of degenerated rambling ghosts upon earth,
 constantly struggling against then manifold maladies, and
poignant disorders, excruciating puma, torment and death.
 Grieved by  the view of such a mournful  exhibition,  if
the attempt  of a disinterested heart, wanting to give sin-
cere advice and friendly admonition to ameliorate the ge-
neral distress, and  if such a solicitude is not deemed to
deserve the  attention-of any  mis>, but tliose who are nleas- 
47
ed to take this opportunity to give  vent to their captious
principles, and take the occasion to cavil,  mock, ridicule
the individual by scurrilous designation,  calumniate', vi-
lify, disgrace, and defame those who are anxious to give
useful information to the generality.  Lamenting at the
general indifference of some, and also at the unaccounta-
ble perversity of some others, as neither one can disheart*
en, depress,  and deter the  one who thinks to  be ift the
path  of his duty, from telling the truth, and even  if this
experience  gives  him warning to  be prepared fbt the
most sinister result of his veracity, and that a fatal conse-
quence must be the one, that can be expected by the be-
ing sincere, not  intimidated by the prospect and unshafce-
able fortitude fulfilling its task and sacred obligation, also
destituded of support in die performance,  can with mag-
nanimity, without fear, wait for the event.  But  come,
what may be, and what may take place, it proves more
than any riling that could be mentioned, that the genera-
lity  of mankind manifest  their being  satisfied of tliteir
prosperous state of health,  and innumerable,  multiform
maladies, and to expel them their fashionable,  salivating
process or martyrdom.   Then content of their dea^Mul
Success, they denote their  being pleased  to spend their
tormented days m continual dependency, and that they fan-
cy their corporeal bondage, & likewise that they like the
living for the only purpose of making homage of theftr
property, and the one acquired by them at the expetise of
therr perplexity, fatiguing labour, the sweat of their brows
and bodies,  and that with cheerfulness they make an of-
fering of their wealth, for the purpose of rewarding the
fatal blunders and death of their privileged torturors, and
beside with  alacrity and satisfaction they  bear the dulci-
fying manacles, fetters, and enticing chains, and that wMi
tbcm and their blood they  pay their vassalages to their
corporeal sovereign, and also as  an unequivocal  plight
and dutiful obedience of their unbounded veneration.
  Such is the natural opinion that must have the inde-
pendent of corporeal tyranny, in  cogitating on  the enor-
mous influence and despotical power of those, who in re-
ality arc the most tvrtmnicel masters upon earth, and arbi 
46
 ters of human life and estate.   And with this, such are
 the sentiments that they must have in regard to the unac-
 countable apathy and sacrifice, that their tractable & placid
 slaves, makes when willingly, and with such extraordinary
 resignation, they pay their tribute to their tender chiefs,
 and corporeal governours.  Then in this  occurrence, to
 such boundless dependency,  its influence and the crafty
 fascination of one part, and the blind fanaticism and super-
 stition of the others,mustbe attributed the prevailing reluc-.
 tance of the human living race, for their not being desirous
 of being acquainted with the magnitude of their disgracing
 subjection.   And also, their manifesting no wishes to be
 intimated with matters which  ought to be for them of the
 most interesting nature.   But as these preponderant pow-
 ers, that the civilized human life rectificators  have  over
 their dutiful and obedient sectaries, are not the only oppo-
 sition that has prevented the circulation of the printed ad-
 vice, on  this occasion one is compelled  to mention, that
 likewise  it had  besides some potent opposers, and that
 they were in the dignified zealots, and the ardent support-
 ers, and the besotted admirers of their supreme corporeal
 drainers, or the super-eminent and competent regular sali-
 vators, and that those formidable and implacable antago-
 nists, have been asserted to be likewise the ardent follow-
 ers of the amiable and predicable fantastical divinity,
 termed pride, which, on this occasion, relying on the com-
 mon report and assertion, the venerable object of general
 predilection has carried the hatred, contempt, and aver-
 sion to such a high degree, for the rustical and his obnox-
 ious production, that the only word of the book of detec-
 tion, pronounced before  the strict observer of the proud
 congregation, and on their sensible hearts it makes such
 impressions, as wrell as on those who have  but  vanity for
 exclusive adoration, that for those tender receptacles of
compassion, the frightful  sight of the noxious composi-
tion produces such baneful effects, and sensations, as sud-
denly to  bring forth, in profusion, on the adorer of pride,
 benedictions,  suffocation,  syncopation, qualmish  ejec-
tions, followed by spleen, vapours, and  nervous  crispa-
tion.  But for the  pcac? of rhis world, has the abortive of 
49
 the tried circulation, and the cautiousness and the pru-
 rient circumspection, which those  precious beings mani-
 fest for self-preservation, their attention prevents from the
 relating any accident occasioned by the sight of the dieti-
 cal prescription; consequently the work has not endan-
 gered the precious days of those circumspect dignitaries.
 or any of those eminent personages, those distinguished
 mortals or any of their brethren belonging to the orgilious
 adoration, not being so vulgar as to derogate  from their
 honourable dignity, by applying to a gratuitous and po-
 pular distribution, which such a notorious and ignomini-
 ous application, by its opprobrious devarication from no-
 bility, high titles, and condition, bring on disgrace, shame,
 and mortification, and expose likewise the devaricatcrs to
 be accused of apostacy and desertion, and also of commit-
 ting unfaithful abjuration from the honourable pride cor-
 poration, and that for the sake of bodily reparation by the
 infraction, be exposed to the humiliation of receiving for
 bodily  mundification, but the common nature, vernacu-
 lar production, and for them  leave the divine mercurial
 composition,  and the sublime calomel, slavering, drivel-
 ling, sputative, salivation, and with the rabble and in the
 crowd of the vulgar without distinction, be confounded
 ; nd have of them  the assimilation,  and more aware of
 their importance  and  condition,  none of  the glorious
 brood are found making application.   But as  in all clas-
 ses there must be found subalterns, and that  vanity and
 pride among their sectaries, have  also some needy ones
 wanting to imitate the example of the grandees, then ac-
 cording  to  the common report, those secondary pride
 worshipers, are those, who  demonstrate or have  mani-
 fested,  a  most  inexpugnable aversion, at requesting the
 applicants to supply themselves with  a new book every
 month,  and that those zealots  of vanity have been those
who have evinced to  be the most  exasperated  beings
when the measure took place.  And also that they have
been  the most offended that by the  new'rule  they were
prescribed to perform  their duties by being invited, like
others, to reciprocate some good for the one they should
receive, and consequently this condition  imposed upon 
jO
  them, desiring them to perform a laudable action towards
  their own fellow creatures, has scared them and caused
  their flight.—But without being too prolix on the subject,
  as pride and vanity are disorders of mind produced by
  die one  of  body,  and that the desirous of healing these
  two diseases, i/those, who make application, are affected
 by them.  Therefore, they must receive the friendly ad-
  vice that  the Enemy of human Diseases finds  the" task
  sufficient of striving against  the malignity of body  in
 those seeking after relief without his having to  contend
 against the mental ones.  But  one cannot quit the egre-
 gious chapter of pride, without making the  impeach-
 ment of the  most notorious adversaries, that the benevo-
 lent  distribution has to strive with, and as the twin,
 pride and vanity, sectaries, in all time and places have,
 denoted their being the most implacable antagonists that
 have, and will continue, for ever, to have  the benevolent
 distribution,  charity being incompatible  with  the  su-
 preme, refined sumptuousnesss of a scorning, fashionable
 world, and consequently could but sneer at the charita-
 ble  dispensary,  and likewise  at the shabbiness of the
 meaii-dressed distributor.  Therefore for  the sake of the
 intrepid scurrillous, scoffers, contumelious modest ridicul-
 ers, notorious champions  of a sublime  elegancy,  one
 cannot leave  them without impulsed by  gratitude," strew-
 ing some more flagrant flowers  on the noble path of the
 admirers and scrupulous followers of vanity.
   Notwithstanding,  the void difference,  "that one mav
 have, with regard to their  opinions, and  also the one of
 different pursuit ;  and  to  justify  this it  must be
 related, that the consciousness of human littleness, offers
 a striking  contrast to the beholders, remarking  all  the
 trouble and endeavours of the human fashionable species,
 to raise themselves above their neighbours, and have the
 ridiculous thoughts  of  believing to have succeeded to
 acquire a superior importance by external show,  and by-
 fantastical raiments.   But  differing from  such delirious
 predominant  adoration a miscreant to external pomp and
exhibition  cannot  but testify  surprise for the general
blindness, by*die seeing that the two monstrous  and sy. 
51
 onimous sisters, termed pride and vanity,  have succeed-
 ed in the age of fastidiousness to have the generality of
 mankind, without exception, for their servile and faithful
 worshippers.  But when so enormously  deviating from
 such universal doctrine, and by external appearance, and
 palpable demonstration indicating to  be only irreconcila-
 ble and inconvertible to  the faith of modern  exclusive
 idol and worship, to vindicate such a pertinacity and ori-
 ginal opinion, one is  obliged for the purpose to have re-
 course, in this occurrence, to a competent, unequivocal,
 and irrefutable decider, who can  give clear and satisfac-
 tory conclusion on the matter.  Therefore to justify the
 insuperable reluctance, that one has for the vain-glorious
 pursuit, referring to a solid authority  on the matter,  one
 has been forced to have extracted from die holy writ the
 following decisive  laconical sentence.  " Pride was not
 made fdr man."   One cannot deny that in a few words,
 the eulogy of the modern prevalent goddess, & the panegy-
 ric of their ardent zealots, has been  made, and that, by
 an impartial judge.  And that his warning, categorical,
 succinct, in this conclusive instruction,  is ol a tenor, one
 may suppose, susceptible to vindicate the inconquerable &
 original antipathy, that one may  contumaciously evince
 to have, for the sumptuous appendage of pride and vanity.
 " Pride was not made for man,"  as revealed the univer-
 sal Creator to mankind.   If pride was not made for man
 asserted by such oraculous  and  unequivocal authority,
 one must ask of rational creatures for whom it could have
 been made ? which by the transgression, one is authorised
 to  think, that it must have been made for devils upon
 earth; and consequently  the  principle of  the  doctrine,
 the work of his own suggestion, which one is constrained
 to believe, by  the sacred admonition  emanated from the
 heavenly throne, intimating  mankind, that should they
 listen to such an odious impulsion, as the one  of pride,
 by  the Universal Judge,  it should be  deemed as a noto-
 rious and rebellions infraction to  his commands.  And
 such being the irrevocable decision of the general Law-
giver, how then can any one, belonging to the human
pious^specks,  bi found with their minds infested with 
5.2
   And more so, if the followers of the heterogenous doc-
 trine, pretend to make believe, that themselves have faith
 in  the  incontestable accuracy of the holy words, but as
 too fully demonstrate the inconsistency and the insinceri-
 ty  of the pride-worshippers, in their insidious declaration
 upon a belief, which referring  to  their actions, one has
 forcible proofs  of their  undeniable  fallacy.   Notwith-
 standing that to have it more  detected it should  lead to
 make  disquisition,  which nature and magnitude might
 be thought stranger to the subject, and likewise would
 extend it above its intended  limits.   But to  only  have
 the last incoherency of the pride satellites more obvious
 and their deception, how can any  of her ardent champi-
 ons, which all pursuits forcibly demonstrate their panting
 after nothing else, but vanity,  splendour,  and magnifi-
 cence, endowed with such worldly propensity, how can
 they pretend or make believe in their being the humble
 followers of the  Redeemer's doctrine and strict professor
 of Christianity, when himself recommends  to  his disci-
 ples as first virtue, humility;  of  which he  was the true
 pattern himself ?  But as to prove, in the occasion, the
 general abuse  of words, and the prostitution of their
 meaning, to  evince  the diametrical contrast between the
 conduct, and the bombastical declaration of those  reli-
 gious  pretenders as the matter would be an exhaustless
 one.   What has been said in this  occurrence,  is for the
 purpose to have demonstrated that to idolize pride, must
 be, either by blindness or perjury in those, who strenu-
 ously assert their faith, in the genuine  accuracy of the
 holy pages. When to make others believe in their faith,
they vehemently declare their  being punctual in the Su-
 preme Being's command, & the strict followers of his in-
junction,& wrould be ready at any time,to stigmatize, if not
exterminate those whom they should like to look upon as
infidels, or on  those who should  make remark on their
transgressions.   Notwithstanding the  multiplied convin-
cing arguments,  to which one might  have recourse, in
order to prove,  either the  ^elusion or deception of those
who pretend to hive faith in the holy writ,& by their action
-vince to have no other God, but the one of nride uoon earth • 
53
  to prove the inconsistency, it is undeniable, that the heaven-
  ly precepts, only referring to what has  been said, issued
  from the divine  Legislator.   By the consent of his decla-
  ration, one is  intimated, that as crinie-capital, pride must
  be  acknowledged as a fault,  and  disobedience  to  the
  Heavenly Decree.   And to those  notorious  transgres-
  sions,  the one deviating from the dogmas  of charity, as
  first virtue in those, who pretend to be the  followers of
  the holy book, and of the doctrine of the gospel.  And if it
  is an undeniable truth that charity & humility are the cha-
  racteristics of the doctrine of the Redeemer;  how can the
  notorious infringer of those commands,  have the preten-
  sion to belong to the worship and prevent  any one to be-
  lieve by their conduct in their deceptions, when they urge
  the word of faith; and that they are found so anxiously oc-
  cupied, in decorating their bodies,  with token of vanity,
  and despise and ridicule those of  their fellow creatures,
  who, through their misfortune or obedience to their heav-
  enly Master's command, are found preferring simplicity
  of life, to pomp and worldly enjoyment.   Although out of
  the subject, the  digression was necessary to have evinced
  the fallacy of those pretended true believers and their no-
  torious infringements of the  laws and will of God, and also
  to have demonstrated their iniquitous trespasses towards
  men, when so constantly their captiousness is occupied in
  satiating their malice by their caviling, scorning and vili-
  fying the charitable  distribution and likewise due to his
  reluctance for pride and the fantastical appendage of vani-
  ty,  despise and ridicule the  humble  and plain distributor.
  This necessary detection of the quality and  deeds of pride,
  must serve to" prove, that those, who pretend to  be the
  strict followers of the heavenly command and the humble
  doctrine of Christianity, beside their gross  infraction of
  the law of God and the*  cause of the  afflicted humanity, in
  discrediting  and vilifying .the  gratuitous distribution ;
  their iniquitous  proceeding gives convincing argument,
  when pretending to be pious towards God  and faithful to
■  his  injunction, the assertion is a clear indication of the hy-
  pocricy, fraud and deceit  in those  who do  it.  But ob-
  liged tn terminate the infinite reflection which the captious 
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 followers of pride and the infatuated besotted admirers of
 vanity can suggest.   For what concern and as  reference
 to the benevolent pursuit intimately acquainted with the
 intrinsic merit and natural quality of pride ;  then it must
 not be a matter that can produce surprise, if by their pious
 idolizer none would prostitute themselves and their hon-
 ourable importance, so  low  as to seek after relief where
 humility is the test and the tutelary patron, and to add to
 such exploded principle for pride, the being now constrain-
 ed to give some testimonies of gratitude by the trying to
 retaliate some good to the human species for the one  re-
 ceived.  And, as it is known, that pride and gratitude are
 not kindred and that if any generous actions might be ar-
 gued to have been performed by some of the pride secta-
 ries by close examination one might be so soon acquainted
 that the deed in itself had no other stimulus but the one of
 giving food to vanity by a public knowledge and the fish-
 ing plaudits, and please ostentation by the performance.—
 Therefore to terminate the glorious chapter of pride,  one
 ought not  to be astonished, if it has been seen, and if one
 now can see, and if forever it will be seen, that the most il-
 lustrious and strenuous sectaries of vanity  are the most
 bitter wranglers and spiteful raging against the  almona-
 ry  dispensation, laughing and mocking at it; such is the
 sensation that it does produce beyond the power of contes-
 tation  on  the proud, haughty, supercilious, scurrilous,
 fashionable champions.  And* that, rather than to make to
 it a disgracing application, sooner prefer a modish death
 and excruciation.  But more coherent to the principle
 and fancy of pride, we have to relate the dignifying reme-
 dies, chosen by the noble zealots, whom to manifest their
 unconquerable aversion for  nature, the vulgar offspring
 and productions  inseparable from the dear metal, object
 of their contemplation, with the liquid god of fraud, traffic
 thieves, and speculation,*  then they fervently crave, and
 Jong after the  incorporation, and that to be more closely
muted with the tender substance of their predilection, and


 •k«i!Su^ A^'^^Sf th!/,,d*wthe Propitious patrokof
 ue speculators, thieves,, p«ck-poektt_, an* all dfrhonest person.. 
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 that for the purpose of their bodies to obtain cleanness and
 salvation, and of their dear  penate, the favourable grace
 beneficent dispensation,  and as clear token of tiieir ar-
 dent faith and devotion to receive of their sacred idol the
 infallable restoration, the  proud, haughty brood,  or the
 servile ones in their  imitation,  cheerfully apply to the li-
 beral,  most  notable, mercurial distribution,  by  which
 they are purified, and have the assimilation of the sub-
 lime subtile, volatile god of salival lustration, and the ho-
 ly one  bestowing on pride devotees his bliss in profusion,
 by a refrigerating, scouring,  vivifying salivation.  But
 in this juncture for being particular and minute,  having
 no occasion, that passing silent the rite,  process of- the
 mercurial communion and its prologue,  solemn appara-
 tus, methodical form in the distribution or its forerunner,
 preceding the vital, effectual, corporeal renovation, for the
 purpose having not  one's framing to  give for  citation,
 then we are forced to only auguratc of its sensual affecta-
 tion.  And solely grounded upon guess, depict, the sali-
 vating exhibition, then at random wc have to relate that the
 mercurial adoration for forced product, and to denote pal-
 pable operation bring forth, and that by stream and pro-
 gression out of the beatified frame in their fervent ejacula-
 tion, torrent of slabber drivel, slaver, spittle,  inundation,
 and that by the overflowing, purifying fecundation may
 be also followed  by  the  gut's emigration, but  to relate
 such a  luxurous sensation, as not any pen  or pencil, can
 give the alluring presentation, and fully evince this lus-
 tral projection.—But, if miscreant to the mystical, merer.
 rial immaculation, cannot assist at the ceremonial beatifi-
 cation by conjecture, they may to then.,elves give of it an
 ideal exhibition,  and then gratify their fancy by conceit-
 ing  in  their  vision to have  before their visual sense the
 placid heroes in the operation, and receiving with fervent
 zeal,picty,&compensa ion,the viaticum fashionable calomel
 holy hosts of salvation, and that for the purpose of giving
 a pure and clean habitation to their tutelary paraclete and
 beneficent patron, and the one of prosperous trade, corpo-
 real bliss, and lucky speculation, which to his mean rota-
rics  giving palpable   omen of his  amebic union, by the
 *»-; • 
5.6
finite result of their mascration, and of mere anatomy, gi-
ving to them the  graceful shape and assimilation in their
cleansing flesh and filth, to Operate the perfect purification,
and for the purpose of giving proof of supc.v.-il benefac-
tion, the  natal spirit having with sldn tz bones, afterward
to have but the contention.   Su ch are the invaluable bliss
& profluent satisfactionprofusely diffused on the pride sec-
taries to  reward their  oblation, & compensate  their gene*
rous protectors for their copious salivation, but  not like
the bodies of those inexhaustible spectoration as the un-
drainable chapter of  pride, or the present ruling, master
of mankind, is too extensive to continue longer in  it,
however, one cannot quit it without asking to  those, who
arc taken to receive confidence of the reflections,  that the
ardent followers of the wrorship,can suggest what  the sec-
taries of pride can find in their systems, that can  contribute,
or excite them to be proud of themselves, if they had rea-
sons for  it, notwithstanding,  that, upon no account,  ra-
tional beings should not indulge themselves in such ridi-
culous affectation, and would not suffer their minds to be
infested of such absurdity, as a pretext must be given to
authorize those of the human  specie, guilty  of such  a
fantastical sentiment, as the one of pride.   To justify  it,
if it could be justified, one might think, that nothing, but
exquisite perfection, could allow any one  to be proud of
them,then we have to briefly examine the notable & super-
eminent  qualities, that now replenish the human  species.
And as the most  notorious ones, virtue, knowledge, hap-
piness, Stbodily perfection,or eminent qualities  if adorning
the possessor, which one ought to suppose should  be
of nature to excite .iier.i to be proud of their superior ex-
cellency  over their own species.  But to demonstrate the
extravagancy of pride, in admitting any one to  be  repleted
even of those superlative  perfections, if not endued with
an inordinate elose of self-conceit egotism, or which is still
worse, wit!,  either the m._tcri ilness  doctrine or the one
of atheism.   There fore being the contrary, far from arro-
gating to themselves whatever qualities should be found
of a perfect  nature in themselves, the true believers, in
the power cf their own Maker, ought not to attribute any 
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perfect qualities to their merit, but to the infinite wisdom
and goodness of the original, supreme Author  and Crea-
tor of all things.  And then to his omnificency ascribe an
account whatever perfection can be found upon earth.
   But being on the topic of one of the present human liv-
ing race propense,&as pride,ostentation of self-merit are the
characteristic by which they signalize themselves, we are
compelled to briefly investigate what are the superlative
qualities endowing mankind, moral & physical system, and
what can elate their mindsScexcite them in pride affectation.
Having mentioned already the four principles or qualities,
which could authorize them to be proud of themselves,
if they w7ere found the real possessors of those exquisite
qualities, as those of virtue, knowledge, happiness, and
bodily perfection.  Then  taking  these four  principles
now for the base of our subsequent investigation, we have
to give the succinct analysis of the most predominant vir-
tues, which characterize the living, human  species.—
And on that head, as righteousness must be computed,
as one of the first qualities, we are  forced to give a short
compendium of this natural virtue, as it must be found
prevailing in this modern age.   And under the name of
righteousness,  it must be counted, avarice, selfishness,
cupidity, contempt, hatred of others, and love of one's
self,  fraud,  lies and deception;  if those qualities pos-
sessed in perfection must give claim to have pride, one
cannot deny that  the living human race, more than anjr
one  of former age, deserve to  be commended and justi-
fied for their pride.  And likewise, if instead of mercy,
commiseration  for the  fault of others, or imperfection, if
the exaggerating of them and malicious detraction,  slan-
der,  hatred of  one's neighbour, invidiousness, captious-
ness, rejoicing at others' misfortune, instead of helping and
comforting  them, political and religious dissention and
their general concomitant result.  If those predominant
qualities can be counted as righteousness and exquisite
virtue, and as such can give claim to pride, one cannot
refuse to the modern age, the palm of virtue over any pre-
ceding and antique ones.  And with  respect to  know-
ledge without long disquisition upon the subject to have
                            H 
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evinced the  precious one, by which the human, living
species  must be proud of the one they are in possession
of, if as first one ought to be cited the science of being
acquainted with expedient to promote human preserva-
tion, to have the matter decided, one lias only but to take
a succinct surveyr of the brute's instinct, their healthy' sit-
uation and put  it in parallel of  the one of men and their
prevailing knowledge thereof, to be soon fully convinced,
that if the knowledge of ignorance or self-destruction and
the one of one  specie can give pretension to pride, with-
out injustice none can  deny,  that by their destructive
learning, the civilized race ought to be proud of their art
and perfection.   And for what concern,  happiness, by
which tiieir own specie might be proud of, if the behold-
ing human general tribulation,  degrading and  extenuat-
ing labour, their starvation, torture, subjection, vife sla-
very, and multiplied vexation,  short lives, and long tor-
ments upon earth, manrfokl .end complicated adversities,
blood spilled and universal human sacrifice.   If the sus-
taining such a deplorable and general picture upon earth,
is the kind of happiness, by which the rational species find
themselves  entitled  to  have pride,  one cannot deny
also the justice  of their pretensions, to complete the  four
principles cited ; virtue, knowledge, happiness, and bo-
dily perfection, then with respect to those corporeal beau-
ties, having to  relate on that score, the prevailing one, if
not blinded by infatuation, can it be denied, that, in  mo-
dern age, the human race are found making a most stri-
king progress  towards degeneracy.   And that they are
exhibiting the most sorrowful macs of complicated mise-
ries, variegated deformities,"and that they display a sun-
dry of imperfection, by which can be cited ".ne lame & de-
orep_d,crooked, cramped, bunched, hump-backed, stump-
footed, club-footed, variously disordered, distorted, face
scarred,disfigured,smiill-po-x pitted,myoped,orshort sight-
ed, blinded* insanited,& mad-minded, decrepited, all  sorts
of caducity, &  to cut short on the matter without fear &
prevention, one must say that the living human race, to
impartial eyes, offers a compound of complicated miseries
and manifold infirmities, and also a tissue with respect to 
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minds, a mixture of weakness and wickedness, aud indes-
cribable perversity, and, in all manners, die most misera-
ble, ignorant, ignominious, and malevolent animal  of all
other living creatures,  and the most offensive  and de-
structive of other species of the animals belonging to the
terrestrial creation.  If the grief that the dismal picture
can occur upon sensible heart, the sustaining the view of
their distress, one is compelled,  this moment, to relate the
truth for the purpose of demonstrating what ridicule must
be found in those, who unaware of their mental disorders &
bodily ones, are indulging themselves in sentiment of pride
8c the mentioning of the truth to those, who are the plausi-
ble argument of human misery & ignorance.   This digres-
sion was indispensable to make to those,  who make ap-
plication for the purpose of making them known, that
they apply to the greatest antagonist of pride and vanity,
and also the revelation was necessary to give them warn-
ing, that,  if they have been inconsiderate enough  as  to
let  such a ridicule take  place in their  minds,   they
must be determined to either make abjuration of their ri-
diculous doctrine, or at least in the house of  humility not
give any7 token, that  could inform of their  absurd and.
obnoxious worship, if they  will  not expose themselves to
be  put in remembrance  of humbleness, and also meet
with some mortification.    Therefore, although the ob-
viousness after  what  has been related,  as  it  is  prov-
ed, that there  is nothing in the  human present condition
that can excite them to have sentiments of pride, &, that quite
contrary, after the investigation of the nature of mankind,
result of the research every thing ought  to conspire to
make the specie  extinguish in themsehes the least and
minute seeds that pride could endeavour to  sow  in their
minds.
   Having received this necessary information on the chap-
ter of pride, we are finally obliged to terminate  the arti-
cles of the convention of their admittance,  and the advan-
tage resulting to mankind by employing tliose  who de-
monstrate anxiety for  life, and  who have been  the fatal
victims of their want of instruction concerning their diet,
&C.   Then having  recourse  to  the medium of those, 
ou
Who are rescued from their distressed situation, must in-
duce in the belief that they  shall have compassion to the
one of others and consequently they will be anxious to
testify tiieir  gratitude towards the one, to whom they
cannot offer no other compensation, but the trying to help
him in doing good and,  as it is impossible for him to give
assistance to all those, who are in want  of relief, but that
they all may be benefitted by the receiving advice of sa-
lubrious diet, and the detection of the use of  the detri-
mental articles, giving the explicit demonstration, that to
them must be ascribed the cause of their diseases.  It
cannot be contested on  that score, that friendly informa-
tion thereof, being delivered among  tliose, who comply-
ing to the command of their own Maker, ordering them
to have the sentiment of self-preservation, and also yield-
ing to the dictate of nature and  after  the advice prefer
a life without pain to the one of indulging noxious fancy
and depraved palate.—Therefore those, whose experience
and equity in acknowledging the truth,  that the help, they
have received,  and  the one  they receive gratuitously,
could not be obtained with all the wealth of the  world,
must authorize to think, that they will not refuse on such
a consideration  to serve the cause of  their own  fellow-
suffering mortals,  by gratuitously  likewise delivering in
their hands the pledge of the common friends'  solicitude
for the general welfare.  And   giving  them the  candid
warner of the cause of their  misery by  the sincere detec-
tor, they have also the advantage of receiving the former
information of their delusion, when after having created
pain and maladies in them, they apply to be relieved and
cured to those,  who only  referring  to the confession of
some verdinal members  of the  craft, have no other expe-
dient and remedies, but  those,  whose effects are more in-
jurious than their disorders themselves.  The truth on
such important  matter by the  accurate disinterested
brethren,  give  the  warning of their  fellow-members'
capacity then the perusers of it, have the unequivocal
and explicit revelation of the powerful ignorance concern-
ing the cause of human diseases and the absolute deficien-
cy  of knowledge in those  who,  notwithstanding their 
fill
incompetency,  make their  credulous sectaries generally
pay so dear for their dcathful blunders.   Then by the
sedulous perusal  the  readers  have the plain detection of
the fact, and the deceived on the matter, may  have their
eyes opened on the ridiculous blindness for them of apply-
ing in expectation of being cured of disorders to those,
who referring to the  success, that only they  can obtain
upon their own frame, forcibly demonstrate their being as
incapable and ignorant to help themselves, as are those,
who put confidence in their ability when they cannot ei-
ther cure or prevent  their own  miseries.
   If the benefit that those must reeeive from the detection
who are not too inveterated in their faith, with respect to a
chimerical  science,  cannot be denied, one must add to
these advantages the one  also that  long experience has
given, & which inform of the injurious tendency, resulting
from the expedient as  remedies, as  the one of intrusting
their bodies to the baneful effect, and  the danger of the be-
lievers, in their submitting to undergo the frightful pro-
cess and martyrdom of the slabbering salivation.   Which
common  consequence is, that, if they are  strong enough
to go through the lethiferous  scheme, they must expect
afterwards to be emaciated, enervated, totally  exhausted
in their vital faculties, toothlessed, &c. and that forever af-
ter the direful, noxious liquid, by which the intrepid sali-
vators to  their faithful patients,  given  them  the affi-
nity of barometers, which ingenious expedient in a simi-
lar manner, that the silver liquid operates in those instru-
ments, does act afterwards in the human body.   There-
fore the faithful communicants must not be surprised if
the metal spirit incursion  docs create excruciating pain
and affection, and insupportable torment, at the weather
variation, and as other bliss of the mercurial communion
must be added that they cannot expose themselves  to the
impression of the air, water, earth, without poignant sen-
sation.  If the service resulting from such candid advice,
cannot be contested, by those who arc not void of feeling
forjtheir own fellow-creatures,  can  the} who have been alle-
viated of their pain,or benefitted in their system without ha-
ving experienced the effect of those tonncnting remedies & 
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who are desirous of doing some good for the one they have
received, refuse to & retaliate it to their own species.—.
Then can they refuse, on such important matter, to open
the eyes of their friends, acquaintances and relations, and
enable them to speak to their corporeal despots, or those,
who in reality are the present arbiters of human property
and existence, and tell them in expectation of having been
eradicated of  our  diseases, we have entrusted in your
hands  our lives and estate, what have we received from
your infallible remedies and bombastical, ambiguous sci.
ence, nothing but excruciation, and extenuation ?   And
to relate the legend of your expedient you have reduced
its  former, gigantic  complication  to the laconical  and
narrow compass of a ruling triarchy of which to denomi-
nate the special members of it, must be cited the three go-
verning sovereigns.   As your firstsublime universal cath-
olicon, you liave adopted the restless God Mercury and
for his copartner,  you  have taken the  general soporific
panacea or the somniferous laudanum, added to this pre-
dominent specific the furious barbarous scheme,  or the
monstrous  terrifying phlebotomy or blood-letting;  and
briefly enumerating the first virtue and notable properties
of the prime specific,  having assimilated our  frame by the
quick-silvcrizing  of  it,  to looking-glasses.   And to see
the enormity of such mad experiment, one ought to think,
that our emaciated, extenuated and drained carcasses, &.c,
should have served you,  as a conspicuous mirror, upon
which plainly you  could see the magnitude of your ex-
travagant blunders, informing you of your infatuated pre-
sumption or deception by the pretending, that in filling up
the human  guts with  the liquid,  metallic  substance,
cihhy the solid one is the only object of your expectation,
wou can succeed in curing the disorders of those, who
can pay the  most high price for your exclusive scheme
termed salivation.  But to be fully intimated with such
unnatural expedient,  if one has not the palpable proof of
a long, offensive and  mortal experience, having informed
of the sinister, effects having  only  recourse to their ra-
tional faculties, the human species should be informed,that
by such n torturing process, and its effects, the greatest in- 
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  suit is made to hitman understanding & the superrour rea-
  son they have received from their own maker, & likewise
  to the sublime order of nature so obviously displayed on the
  surface of the earth, & also to the wisdom & infinite good-
  ness of  the great omniscient provider of all created ani-
  mal's sustenance.   It cannot be denied,  that offence must
  be made to the great  author  by the thinking, that for
  mankind,  the first animal,  he  had confined their urgent
  remedies in the deepest visceras of the earth, from whence
  they  cannot be extracted  without commonly the explo-
  rer's destruction in the attempt, and also by degrading la-
  bours and offensive and deathful excavation.   But with-
  out dwelling any longer on such notorious improbability,
  which the only assertion must be deemed a flagrant blas-
  phemy against the paternal solicitude of the supreme dis-
  pensator of all things.
     And with regard to the other prevalent, modern specific
  pearl of the remedies,  the  poppy-consolidated juice, the
,  informed by the detection  of  its natural virtue, are ena-
  bled to tell to their privileged life's protectors.  How Carf
  you pretend to make believe those, who are endued With
  common sense, that the cause of human pain carl be de-
  stroyed by the numbing and absorbing all their faculties,
  intellectual and corporeal ones and forcing upon them or
  your credulous patients  a lethiverous slumber, which
  awakening never fails  being1 followed by  increasing an-
  guish, new accesses, stupidity, weariness, bones' aching,
  and similar to their having undergone  the  benign rack-
  operation, and with this blessing tremor, torpor, &c.
     But to cut short on the  marvellous prowess of the re-
  vivifying anodyne substance, concerning its natural mor-
  bific qualities or general  diseases creating virtues,  one
  cannot, on the occasion, have them more plainly and elo-
  quently detected and extolled, but by the referring to the
  candid  revelation of the experienced on the matter and
  the tutelary  patron of coffee.  " The diseases generally
  brought on, by a continual course of excessive doses of
  opium are cither loss of appetite, stupor, debility, loss of
  memory,  melancholy,  palsy, or  dropsy."----—Other
  quotation of the same*.  " And frequently the consequent 
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ces of the necessary and temporary use of laudanum, are
nausea, languor, dizziness of the head, cold sweats, head-
ache, hysterics, and tremor."  Continue the same.-----
" various have been the attempts of physicians and chy*
mists to  correct their  favourite opium  #****.   But
their preparation have  neither ameliorated  the simplek
juice of the vegetable, as the great Sydenam* asserts,
nor  have they taken away those properties to  which its
prejudicial  effects are attributed."  Quotation from the.
same.  " These are the unrivalled virtues of the poppy,
so  highly distinguished by  the Creator, and whose ex-
cellence no  human praise can reach, "f
   From the nature of the enormous transition made so
suddenly, at the same time,  bestowing disgrace and en-
comium  upon  the prodigal  somniferous  substance,  one
has  a palpable specimen of  the consistency of one latter
ages' medical grandee.  But passing silent all the reflec-
tions,  that  the incoherency  of opinions could suggest,
what has been said is only to give irrefutable documents
of the diseases creating qualities of the soporific substance
in order to demonstrate from the sincere moudi of une-
quivocal patron of veracity, and also a competent judge,
authentically confessing, with respect to the poisonous
substance,  that himself and  his brethren have no other
specific to cure  human  maladies, but remedies  proving
by their use to create, on the sectaries, innumerable sorts
of others.   Then, from the nature  of this detection, can
its service be  denied, when so plainly and irrefutably ad-
monishing  the  true believer,  or those, who only  want
some plausible instruction to avail themselves of the ad-
vice to avoid to have recourse to  such noted  poison,
which in expectation to cure their diseases, arc exposed to
have created a multitude of others.   And also concerning
the third expedient of the prevailing mode, or to be more.
plain,  the terrifying barbarity ol taking the  blood out of

  •Orttie greatest ar.d most intrepid  blood-letter and human drainer, who
has made his appearance upon earth.

  t Quotation taken from the Treatise  cone .ruing1 tlfc p'ron'cvty of coffer bv
Bpnjamin Mostly, physician of Lond<m 
0_>
  :he human body, by  the consistent reason of not being
  able to cleanse it of the filth which it has to contend with,
  to have more extensive explanation  concerning such a
  a*refill scheme, one must refer to the rest of this compo.
  sition, it being mostly intended to elucidate the truth of
  the matter, and evince the bleeding frightful extravagancy.
  Then from  those essential informations, those who are
  desirous of having a  luminary, that can give them clear
  fight on the subject, and could such a detection—serving
  to instruct those who  are unaware of the danger of mak-
  ing use of such detrimental remedies, be proved to be of
  no service, when informing them of the implicit caution,
  which they must use  to endeavour not to fall in  the claw
  of those, who so long and so forcibly have evinced their
 riot being in possession of any efficacious specific,for which
 they make the credulous pay as dear as they  can, and
 on that scope who have no more pity for their submitted
 votaries' purse and bodies, than voracious owls have for
 doves.  Continuing to relate the other real advantage, that
 may be received from those  informations, must  be cited
 likewise that among  those privileged human corporeal
 rulers, by their sectaries, being represented the constant
 effects of their deathful blunders, some of them with their
 practice,  if not having abjured all sentiments of humani-
 ty, may become by the observation more compassionating
 for the human affliction: and also may perceive the reali-
 ty of their erroneous knowledge, and visible incapacity,
 and the detrimental nature of their depopulating expedi-
 ents and destructive  remedies.   Due to such elucidation,
 they may also  try to have recourse to some more effica-
 cious means, or less dangerous ones ;  and likewise may
 become more moderate in their general inordinate charg-
 es, and the whole of the detection may excite some of the
 human species to rise out of their indifference for their
 own life's  concern, and serve to open the eyes of their
 corporeal rectificators,  on the  magnitude of their trans-
 gressions to the law of nature, injunction of God, and the
 compassion by men due to suffering humanity, in aggra-
vating it by a fatal power and learning, having no other
tendency but the  one of conducing to the promotion  of 
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widows and orphans, and depriving them of their sup-
ports afterwards, by availing themselves of fictitious ser-
vices, and by the being invested with unaccountable privi-
.eges,enabling them to deprive the surviving of the dead,&
all legitimated heirs of their legacy.  Added to that, the
depriving the mechanic and workman of the product of
their hard labour, the sweat of blood, of their brows, &. bo-
dies, to obtain a scanty elementary sustinence for them-
selves and their needy progenies.
  Such is in part the advantage, that might operate the cir-
culation of the first book of detection, h likewise this, if not
publicly but  by private circulation may have, one  day,.
the tendency of enlightening legal power on the enormity of
granting such an unnatural one, and the consequence re-
sulting  from tolerating such social despotism enabling
the powerful craft  for fictitious service to dispose accord-
ing to their own will and caprice,  of human life, liberty,
and estate.  And likewise to give  the unalienable privi-
lege to oppressors  to prevent any ones not trained in the
same regular principle of human martyrdom, and conse-
quently more capable of affording relief to human misery,
by that very reason prevented from doing  it, for the sake
of hurting the credit, gain,  and enormous fees of those
who, by death torment, have obtained the right to live in
plenty and splendour, at the  general expense, and to ex-
probate, persecute, and have expulsed, those who should
dare  to prove,  by  their success, to have  obtained their
knowledge from another source.
  Although, by the judicious, these considerable benefits
may be acknowledged  to be the result of the circulation,
for those of the human species who are not incurably fas-
cinated by the  superficial science  or baneful learning  of
the supreme corporeal divine, or those who have the absot
lute  privilege of disposing  at random of human life and
properties.  Besides having the convincing proofs of the
truth, the warned receive the advice of the dangerous con-
sequences resulting for them,  if  continuing in  making
use of the detrimental articles to the human body, and of
their delusion, after having by their injurious effects cre-
ated  diseases in them, of i.poiving- to those, whose science, 
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 remedies, and expedients, are more proper to aggravate
 their situation, than to afford  them  relief.  Upon that
 head, anxious of the truth, and agreeing that the circula-
 tion must prove  of great  advantage among those who
 should  be willing to listen to the advice, but yielding to
 the fact they may observe  that,  in order to prevent the
 gratuitous distribution from being discredited by its im-
 placable enemies, if instead of selling those books, they
 were like the  gratuitous distribution  given awaj for no-
 thing, the raging antagonists should, have no pretext and
 opportunity to vilify the  pursuit by  asserting the great
 gain  made  by the selling those books.  But to  prove
 on that topic the mistake of the idea, notwithstanding
 what has been ?;.:d, winch owght  robe sui'icientto de-
 monstrate the delusion, and that in vain one should try
 to prevent malevolency of making use of its exhaust-
 less resources, for the sake of calumniating what am*
 not be  imitated by its fractious zealots, for whom some
 pretext or other must be found in  order to give vent
 to their iniquitous heart-detraction.   But  for the mo-
 ment, for the purpose of taking this new'opportunity
 offered  to malicious  wranglers, to  have a pretence  to
 vilify the charitable pursuit, supposing that any fortune
 should  prove sufficient to be  enabled to deliver, free
 gratis,  a book to promote the circulation of the  dieti-
 cal abstinence to any  one calling for it, what would be
 the consequence,  and  what service could such a pro-
 digal distribution  be to the human  species,  and like-
 wise what would be the future use and  destination  of
 books indiscriminately and  squandering!}- distributed  in
 such a manner ?   To be correctly informed, one has on-
 ly to refer to the present human nature, and their valuing
 nothing whatever but what cost  a great deal, or is very
 hard to  be got, and consequently except what is very ex-
 pensive, is admired and precious to the eyes.  In this ax-
 iom, what should be the advantage of lavishing wealth and
trouble  to such a purpose, and what would  be the fate of
the book, and what use would it be,but to excite the con-
tempt of those who  should take it ?   This truth, with
many others, must serve to justify the measure taken  of 
6£
 requesting those, who wish by the benefit they have re-
 ceived, to continue more than a month to make applica-
 tion, and to supply themselves with a new book, and also
 must induce in the belief of their making the prescribed
 use of it—knowing the enjoined condition of their admit-
 tance, which rule reducing the number of the applicants
 to a very inconsiderable one, then give them better chance
 to be more carefully attended.   This consideration must
 authorise to think that, henceforth, none will make appli-
 cation, but those who are willing to retaliate towards their
 own fellow-creatures the good they  have experienced to
 have received by complying with the desire made to them
 of making good use of the printed advice and detection.
 But  upon a matter of such importance, as  the one of
 spending forty cents per month  for health's sake or alle-
 viation, we are obliged to give the last solution concern-
 ing the subject, and for the purpose  it must be repeated,
 that those who apply in the intention of trying what be-
 nefit they can  receive from the specific of nature, after
 they have exhausted the artificial  ones, by  the use of
 which,  generally, instead of help, they have commpnly
 received  torment, if  not death, or enervation; as it is a
 fact  too notorious to be contested, that such is the condi-
 tion that the afflicted are in, when tliey make their trial of
 the resources of nature, which they receive all gratis, and
 finding themselves benefitted after  one montii, then they
 have the  choice either to  quit, or to spend forty  cents
 each month—if they choose to continue not to pay for
 the remedies,  but to do a good and generous action  by
 the giving gratis, as they  have received their health, to
 their friends and acquaintances, a pledge of their gratitude
 to those,  who can afterwards testify the same sentiment
 likewise to them, & return thanks for the service, that they
 may have received from friendly advice, contained in the
 detection given to them.  If such considerations, for those
 who find no help to their miseries any where else but to
the gratuitous  distribution, are not worth spending forty
 cents per month, and if the sum is more precious to them,
 than to spend it for the sake of their health, and to be de-
 prived of so great an amount, to be alleviated of their infir. 
                         6.9

mities, they have the option to keep their miseries, ©r part
with their forty cents per month for themselves and human
good.
  But notwithstanding, what has been said already for
the purpose of demonstrating that the  considerable sum
is not intended *o help the charitable dispensation, to
make the truth more conspicuous and dispel the  incul-
cated impression that malice and interested intention con-
tinue to give on the subject, one cannot be afraid  of be-
ing too verbose and distinct on the matter.   Then  com-
puting the number of the  applicants, at the rate of two
hundred per  month,  notwithstanding,  that  the number
may be beneath that calculation ; but  not being able to
exceed now that number, taking it, for  average, out of it
must be taken those,  who, for different  considerations
and useless to mention, must be dispensed from the rule,
then computing  the number of the applicants, taking a
book every month at the rate of  150,  the total amount
of the sum received, would be sixty dollars  per month,
and  consequently the real sum of six  months would be
three hundred and sixty dollars,  out of  which must be
subtracted the commission which must be paid to the one
who attends the applicants and delivers them the books.
Such is the great sum, that spite and  captious cavilers
have urged and will forever urge, that  support the gra-
tuitous pursuit, which to tell the truth,  even  if it was all
profit,   would  not  by  a great  deal  pay  the  annual
expenses.  But contrary to that, not one cent  being made,
and running the chance by all appearance of losing the
half of the first cost, what is argued by  malice to serve to
make a fortune. And on that head, the real truth must be
delivered to those, who must not be suffered  to have the
disgracing idea,  that they apply to be  relieved of their
distress, to gain pursuit, instead of disinterested benevo.
lence, one is obliged to be very particular  on the matter
of elucidating the truth, wanting those, who  are the only
objects of pity and compassion, to have no other opinion
but the one, that the pursuit of their relief is maintained
by great expense, hardship, trouble, and  vexation, and
having for reward, and only emolument of the lucrative
business, calumny, rlptrpctinn  f>rifLJriiJL'r'tinri^t»cr_it/jl__?rL 
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to relate the truth for the purpose of advising those, who
are left in the necessity of seeking to have relief from
nature's dispensary, not to listen to the perfidious insinu-
ations of the friends of  their miseries, and consequently
the inveterated enemies of their life, health, and welfare.
Then, if avarice, selfishness,  and pride, decline to spend
a little more than one cent per day for  their own benefit
and the one of others,  proving the little pity, that they
have  of themselves  when grudging to be deprived or"
such a sum, preferring to it, to keep their pains and mal-
adies.%  Therefore to those only, who are willing to  ac-
cede to make such an enormous sacrifice, for  their own
sake must be detected,  if the spending something more
than one cent per day is the intrinsic value that  can  com-
pensate the  service that those  who  make application
could receive, if not from the agent distributor,  but from
the universal dispensator,  generously and profusely sup-
plying his inexhaustible pharmacy' and for the purpose
to have such illustrious repository" glorified, and  also to
have the ingenious question of the doubtful and spiteful
controvertists answered, as  they may be authorised to
avail themselves of their ignorance, they ma)' be excusa-
ble, when having neglected until now, to have made use
of the present mode of acquiring fame, and that for the
universal Procreator of all things, and consequently of the
terrestrial specifics in order to have them extolled,  having
forgotten  to have them assimilated to the modern scheme
of the sellers of opiate, or their precious orviatans, &c. or
as they are pleased to term their divine, universal reme-
dies,  which according to their  vexatious assertions, the
catalogue of human  maladies,  is  insufficient to give
chance to their marvellous antidote,  to prove their infalli-
ble efficacy and their miraculous prowess.
   To explain the cause of such neglect of having re-
course to  such prcdicable means of  being renowned, as
well as having employed the one of fabricating a stupen-
dous series of attestation of wonderful exploits performed
by the universal specific, which like the pretended genu-
ine certificates, asserting the inappreciable value of the
eximious  antidote,  and the whole fabrication  generally, 
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as solid, real, and true, as the preciousness of the exqui-
site remedies.  Therefore,  having in no time,  neither
baits  to lay out to fish and  catch the metalic substance
real  or figurative,  nor inclination to acquire fame by
circular publication, it must not excite surprise, if no-
thing has ever been published, informing of what species
of capacity the charitable distribution may be empowered
to relieve human affliction,  and  nothing authentic,  hav-
ing been declared on the matter, but by silentness ancj.
authentical  demonstration,  the  indifference must  then
leave chance  to cavillers and pertinacious  disbelievers,
spiteful controvertists, to pertinently argue  that the be-
nevolent distribution is destitute  of capacious virtue and
knowledge  to help and cure human  diseases.   And,  if
one has no interest to instruct those contumacious wran-
glers of the real truth ; but in this occurrence, it must be
revealed, for the sake of the applicants, and to make the
afflicted willing to spend per day something more than a
cent to try the properties of nature's remedy, then at least
for them must be disclosed the  fact of their operation,
and if they can receive the equivalent of their great ex-
penses in  the trial..  And provisionally on that head one
must inform that not endowed with the methodical conceit
and regular practice &. not attributing to personal ability
the effect operated by the divine virtue of the universal Dis-
pensator's wisdom.  Therefore in ord er to have his bene-
volent goodness magnified by the pious and godly, one
must not  hesitate to reveal & confidently tell the facts of
the Omni-Parent's solicitude for his universal family.
   And that for the purpose, if not yet enabled by their ex-
perience to answer the common question of  captious dis-
believers of the author of nature's capacity at  least to repfy-
to their assertion concerning the distributor of his terres-
trial offspring's making use constantly of the  following ex-
pression.   " Who has he cured ? Oh ! the man can do
nothing:" such being the ordinary exclamation of the zea-
lous worshippers of  the  omnificent Creator's production.
to these ingenuous questions,   W ho has he cured ?  on
that enquiry the interrogated by their experience are au-
thorised to  answer  to  those  incredulous champions, 
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Who has he killed ?  And who has ever been by him
assimilated to the privileged common mode of dismiss-
ing regularly the human species out of the world, after hav-
ing applied to hi m & to the charitable distribution ?   And
on the chapter  of  mortality,  the common fashion, the
questioned have also the chance themselves to question,
in their turn, those suspicious  controvertists, and ask
them where are  to be found  the earthly  monuments or
the multiplied graves after the long time elapsed  of the
charitable pursuits  that have been erected or dug out for
the purpose of covering  or hiding the lifeless victims of
its lethiferous or mortal blunders ? and likewise to evince
them among the multitude of  distressed beings coming
from distant parts,  not to  say, hardly crawling to reach
the  benevolent  dispensation,  what instance of it and
where are to be found those who have left their bodies
whereupon they were seeking for relief, after having re-
ceived the generous distribution ?  To this unequivocal
plight of the author  of nature's specifical capacity the in-
terrogator to those incredulous antagonists and disbeliev-
ers  in the virtue of the natural production delivered by
the benevolent pursuit repeating the question,  Who has
he cured ?  Oh!  the man  can do nothing, and  none but
nonsense, and stupidity can apply to him.   On  that head
one cannot contest the accuracy of the assertion of those
sensible and impartial beings, when  so judiciously they
pertinently assert that the man  can do nothing.  One
cannot deny on that scope, that a greater truth cannot be
urged that the man can do nothing, and especially when
he was & is assailed by several hundred at one time & all of
them wanting to be cured at once, and afterwards mak-
ing use of the  remedies delivered  to them, God only
knows, in  what manner.   In those junctures mus»t be
acknowledged and said, Oh !  the man can do nothing;
the truth must be confessed, that the man can do nothing
on those occasions.   But what the products of the su-
preme Creator of all things can do, when properly applied,
is what, if not acquainted with those who had no chance
to be informed of,  must know,  and confidently be inti-
mated with.  And for the purpose, taking a succinct 
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 survey of human, multiplied, and manifold distresses hi
 the endless vocabulary of them, it cannot be denied, that
 the shrieks  of anguish  which ought to excite the most
 compassion of all those belonging to the human species,
 if not endowed with  an  insensibility demonstrating  to
 have the only shape and name of the race, then for com-
 passionating beings, the agony and affecting distress  of
 the female  in labour, must  be deemed to be one of the
 most grieving and  painful cases.  But  as correcdy as-
 serted  by the captious  controvertists, The man can  do
 nothing for such mournful cases, it is true, but what the
 provident Father of Nature has done, and can be demon-
 strated,  and has been proved  in many instances, is to have
 created expedients  for the purpose of having delivered,
 and that without pain, in a short time, those unfortunate
 creatures in bringing forth  their own species ; and the
 man, who is so positively argued by insidious cavillers to
 do nothing, to know nothing, and to be of service  to no-
 body, is the very one, wdio has such contemptible know-
 ledge in his possession, enabling him to alleviate the sor-
 rowful torments of those hapless creatures in their re-pro-
 duction, & in that respect the most afflicted part of all living
 creatures upon earth. And added to these insignificant pow-
 ers, is that those helped creatures, instead of remaining
 according to the regular doctrine of child-birth, several
 weeks in bed, and closely confined, the  vernacular, sapi-
 ent provider, heedness, has created specifical substances,
 by the assistance of which, after their having been happi-
 ly and quickly delivered, those interesting beings, in their
 most essential destination, are enabled, without exposing
 themselves to any dangerous consequences,free from usual
 fever, if not the same day, at least the next one, to be about,
 attending themselves if they choose and likewise to venture
 out if it happensto be in moderate weather.   Such new me-
 thod of delivering and helping the half of the most afflicted
 part of the human species,in preserving the race upon earth,
 is not by the effect of the man's capacity, who knows  of no-
 thing, &  does nothing according to the candid assertion of
 the friend of humanity, but by die production & scheme of
the omnific and provident Author of all things.—But the
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,nia;i who knows nothing and can do no such thing, ought
to induce in the beliei of his being competently initiated^
and having received either help or consent to be effectu-
ally instructed in such mysterious expedients.   And for
Which,  according to  scrupulous doctrine of the virtuous
eontrovcrtists, the man  who knows nothing; but such a
thing deserves  to be exprobated, defamed, if riot exter-
minated,  if daring  by practice to demonstrate the good-
ness of the universal Creator in giving assistance to those
distressed beings, in the common painful labours.   And
also with regard to their  progenies, for those who have not
only the shape of mankind, & empty carcases, or filled up
with  tygers' or vulturous hearts, then for sympathizing
ones it must a subject creating griefs, then the one of hear-
ing at their coming to  the world, the piercing cries and
the lamentation of those innocent creatures—'the forerun-
ner, one must say,  of their coming to inhabit a confused
hemisphere, and a labyrinth into which they shall have to
struggle with the compound of misery,pain,mamfold tribu-
lation, multiplied wickedness,  common  lot before death.
And returning to the grieving cries of those dolorous ob-
jects, it  must be likewise revealed, that the paternal good-
ness has created efficacious means to prevent those tender
creatures from being suffocated,not to say strangled, m giv-
ing warning to the author of their days concerning their
pains & distresses.   Therefore honour and glory ought to
be given to the  All-Wise & Good, for  his affording means
to raise those new inhabitants of the world, without cry-
ing, and consequently without pain and distress.  But on
such an important matter, those whose experience, with-
out this declaration, have  been informed  of the reality of
the truth, may answer, that the furious opponents, far from
rejoicing at the  newrs concerning the blessing that can af-
ford assistance  in those cases, are exasperated  and vio-
lently incensed, and abuse those who dare before them
cite palpable instances ;  and likewise  insist that the  man
knows nothing, and  curse,  swear and  imprecate him for
his having rashly given such plausible proofs of  the om-
nific and Omni-Parent's wisdom and  goodness.  But to
those  who  may  manifest their surprise,, that  a thing of 
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£uch importance and so precious, as the one of  having'
delivered women in labour, without any material pain and
any danger, and also their offspring raised without crying,
those who are acquainted with the truth may wonder that
the strongest aversion, contempt, and reluctance is gene-
rally demonstrated to even take the testimony of those,
who can pledge themselves by their experience concern-
ing the result of tfie matter.  Concerning such notorious
indifference, some explanation must be given, and for the
purpose must be  said, that for those compassionating
hearts, any thing contrary to human destruction, is deem-
ed worthy of abhorrence, contempt, and animadversion,
for which what only can excite notice and admiration must
be of the  same benign-like nature of congreve rockets,
torpedo, beneficent catamaran, diabolical machine, and the
sportive invention of  satan—calculated to inflame and in
volcanoes to transform the ocean—and all the toys of ex-
ecrable memory,  the infernal son of Chatham.   Then
such recreating human experiment to admire the benevo-
lent action of the modern age, deserve the only notice and
approbation, to be applauded as  valuable objects, deserv-
ing veneration for ten lcr heart,  giving the food suitable
to their predilection,  hen none ought to be surprised, if
the giving relief to the afflicted patroniess, the pursuit
must become the object cf horror and detestation. But, at
the hazard of increasing stigmaa and contention, by the
giving of the Father cf  Nature's goodness the detection,
one must continue to  relate the effects of his dispensation,
in order to  have decided and finally  Obtainthe solution,
if thev  are worth a little more than a cent per d-y com-
pensation.
 Therefore, to have it fairly determined, as the catalogue
enumerating human maladies is too  voluminous to men-
tion them separately, and as irregular logic to account for
the most potent cause of human diseases,has no other in-
struction, but to attribute them  to virulent fevers—then
in the copious legend of these numerous disorders of bo-
dy must be cited as  primary ones, remitting and  inter-
mitting fevers or agues, acute continual fever, scarlet dit-
to, bilious fever, malignant, putrid, or spotted fever, ret« 
T*
low fever, and olive pestilential one, and to cut short on
the multiplicity of those tokens of human knowledge, and
pledge of temperance, as the eminent learning and regu-
lar method and the multiplied clinical visits made by assi-
duous conquerors of those diseases* does not prevent
them, for the most part, to leave the world to their suc-
cessors without taking leave of them, and after some
weeks and sometimes after some days of having been de-
voured by  the thirst of their internal burning foe.
   And to conquer such a powerful enemy, the victorious
and  capacious,  regularly  trained,  licensed, graduated
and duly invested, to quench, to quell, to subjugate, to
refrigerate  those inflamed mortals, have generally in their
possession  for a universal catholicon, the celestial, essen-
tial,  lustral, mercurial,  substantial,  calomel,  principal,
fundamental,  stone-phvsical, which the liberal prodigal
as usual, profusely distribute to their tractables, which
means effectual are undeniable and  palpable in their con-
tinual funeral  festivals.   But being on the mineral to-
pic one must relate the  one,  that the Heed-paternal has
created to  prevent those distressed mortals from quitting
so soon the region terrestrial, and the taken to receive the
information of the truth,  must know that for the purpose
an aqualapis, or to make it better understood,  a water-
stone, which  for those burning fevers, is existing upon
earth, to annihilate their internal  fires.   Surprised or
stunned at the  revelation, but, if concerning its nature,
one cannot give more information on this 6ccult chapter,
one must  presume,  that those,  who  receive the mys-
terious hint,  wish to be acquainted  at least, if nothing
more can be told them on the  subject, with the extension
and   the  particular  properties  of  the  secret  of the
mentioned stone, or the antifibrifile  or  the  efficacious
fever remedy.   On that head to continue the  revelation
of the omnific wisdom  and bounty, but  forced to be
brief on the matter, with regard to the virtue of this fe-
ver-specific it must be said in its behalf and the glory of the
solicitous Pro-creator of it that the  multiplicity of fevers
contained in the methodical and physical pandect without
excepting  the yellow pest and olive one, pleurisy, &c_; 
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Then  on the muftitudiness it must be said that for those
malignant and virulent disorders,  if the infected and af-
fected of those diseases, should  apply the first day they
are taken to the charitable distribution, and be punctually
attended, on that score, giving only the result of practice
and experience and knowledge acquired on the subject,
one must assert that lew hours should prove sufficient to
have evinced the watery stone efficacy  forcibly demon-
strating the Heavenly  Healer's capacity, obviously eluci-
dated in his salutiferous antidote, which in fever-cases, a
short time is sufficient to effectually extinguish the inter-
nal human conflagration.  But to abbreviate the narrative
of the surprising property of the  supernal  remedies in-
tended for those cases, one is forced for the  purpose of
having the Dispensator of them magnified,  to assert that
the charitable distribution could give relief to a thousand
in one day, if coming in the first stage taken, and that the
whole of them could  be  eradicated the next  day ; and
moreover, out of one hundred thousand of similar cases,
not one should prove of  its being of a mortal nature.
And to  prevent those  who are taken for special confident
 of this truth, to suspect it of exaggeration, one is obliged
 to put them in the remembrance, that tliose who generally
 make their application for any disorders, come after their
 being extenuated by  a regular art and  the  poignancy of
 their maladies, and notwithstanding their precarious situ-
 ation, out of the  incalculable  number of them  having
 made' application, very few,  if any after many years  of
 attendance, could be  cited, as low as they  were, to have
 had mortal cases.   Therefore to terminate  the chapter of
 fevers, such is the competent dexterity of the Provident
 dispensator, and the expedient  made use of in tliose dis-
 eases, by the man who pertinacioiialy is argued <o know-
 nothing and likewise do nothing.   And if the veracity of
 the assertion cannot be contested, and that the man can
 do nothing, but the  one, who can  do  something, by his
 remedies must be  detected,  and what he has done and
 can do, and all sorts of fevers must be cited without any
 exception.   And  if those pledges of the truth of the Di-
 vine  Alleviator's remedy, have their own experience for 
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linequivoeal testimony informing them of the fact, which
are no proofs for contumacious controvertists of the sub-
lime providential production, contested in their efficacy,
by those who pretend to be the most faithful and pious
worshippers of the wisdom and goodness of the Creator,
then the cause  of the pertinacity of those interested and
spiteful Machiavalian's denegations, is that for their na-
ture, contistation is more suitable than a studious obser-
vation, when wanting nothing else,  but pretexts to give
vent to detraction.  Addedto their  benevolent inclina-
tion, the having no fancy and wish  of admiration, but for
the charitable invention of the benign-like nature.
   Congreve rockets, torpedo,  beneficent catamaran, de-
monial machine, sportive invention of Satan—calculated
to inflame, and in fulminent volcanoes to transform the
ocean, and all the  toys of execrable memory, the infernal
son of Chatham.   And for those compassionating beings
such a scenery  is the only one worth contemplation,  and
must not give surprise if they prove the animadversion &
explode the review,to take notice &. examination of the ef-
fect of the author of nature's procreation.  But notwith-
standing their raging opposition, as the narrative of them
is not destined to sustain their inspection, of the bountiful
Father, one must continue the detection, for the sake of
thOse who are not partial advocates of human affliction.—
And forced  on that  score to mention a disorder, whose
baneful nature has been for some centuries past looked up-
on as one of the greatest scourges visiting those  who are
pleased to call themselves civilized nations, by  its adding,
besides, to its notorious malignity the disfiguring common-
ly the infected  of it, and leaving on them inseparable and
conspicuous traces of its having betokened the individual
it had visited, 8c without further explanation on the mat-
ter by the delineation of the flagitious  disorder, one must
be enabled to infer that the small-pox is the plague, that this
narrative alludes to.  But to prevent its nefarious raging
calamity, it is known, that it has  exerted powerfully, and
baffled the ait of the  privileged and learned, methodical,
regular,successful,diseases, conqueror, until one must say
ftflate to the honour ©f the scientificalage, and an Hercu- 
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 lean heroes and intrepid Argonaut, or a modern Jason iu
 quest of a golden flea, if not of a ram as the antique one, at
 least the modern one, less minute has found on the skin of
 an infecterl  beast going under the popular name of cows
 by the assistance of his illuminated brain, a fulgent ad-
 amant which has informed him of its preciousness & of the
 source  of glory and of the exhaustless riches he could
 acquire by  such a  valuable production, if he  could suc-
 ceed in making believe that those salubrious fragrant pus-
 tulous gem of  the creature have  a preventive quality,
 superior to  the human ones, to preserve their frames from
 being attacked or visited by the  pandemic pest, termed
 small-pox.   To the advantage an illustration of the pre-
 sent age having succeeded in his persuading pursuit, it is
 too well known and of to let  done that the luminous and
 victorious  cow-skin  surface,  studious  explorer has tri-
 umphed in his labour, and for it has been celebrated, un-
 examplified, extolled and glorified forever, also immortal-
 ized,&his life to godPlutus,assimilated,thenthe skin of the
 modern Midas  has fouru anew pactolusonthepestifer-
 ed quadruped & an inexhaustible mint of fabricated gold
 or its typical representation, digested rags.  So that now
 due to the  lactual animal infection or the milky one, cu-
 taneous contagion, the eminent jack-all, jackdaw, jenner,
 jactor, jackulent penetration, the  latter age has received
 the benediction of the predicable, admirable, incompara-
 ble vaccination, which, after long, bloody strife and con-
 tention,  has succeeded to  expulsate her elder sister, in-
 noculation.  And by such a struggle and successful usur-
 pation, the letter of the former as the right, ^ remain singly
 in possession of  the preventive  pest dispensation  and
 consequently of the inalienable privilege of making circu-
 late, at random, sundry of disorders and infection.  And
 to cut short on the matter, notwithstanding the vast field,
 it leaves opened to prolific reflection, which the expedient
 ean suggest the prcteded preventive innovation by its na-
 ture,it must induce to make the popular comparison or cite
• the trivial old adage,which is,that to be rescued from the fry,
 ing-pan is to leap into the fire.  And to be confirmed in the
 Opinion of accuracy of this comparison, if one had not the 
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 result to be guided by, of a long and studious experience
 informing of  the most sinister effects produced by the
 frantic expedient evinced on the bodies of the victims of
 the vaccinating schemes, how could any rational beings,
 making use of their intellectual faculties, believe that by
 the introducing into  the human  body a cancerous sub-
 stance extracted from an infected beast, and afterwards
 circulating in a multiplicity of infected frames, and conse-
 quently having had the chance of adding new degrees of vi-
 rulency&diseases to its natural ones, the noxious accumu-
 lation can effectually prevent from the being exposed to the
 danger of the scourge and that by such a compound, & one
 must say, multiform  seeds of infection, the receiver  of
 them can be free from the catching the aforesaid one.   But
 as too fully make too long disquisition on the matter, would
 lead the subject further than this moment can permit, to
 demonstrate the ridicule of such extravagant expectation,
 one must only relate the effect resulting from the  vacci-
, nating process which the priviieged physical corporation
 are pleased to call divine, on that score, one cannot but ad-
 mire their sagacity, if their illustration  is in consideration
 of the expedient  prolific diseases' procreating  properties.
 And by the notable incomium one must see the gratitude
 that has perspicasity in the propitiousfk.  fructiferous means
 for the human maladys commerce, but having no spe-
 culation in view,  and riches to expect from human mise-
 ry, and to live  in prosperity  by the effect of the vaccinat-
 ing divinity,  speaking this moment to those who must re-
 ly on the candid and impartial declaration of the one, who,
 without fear and self-consideration, has no  other interest
 above the oneofhuman good. One must then give them the
 result  acquired by experience, on the subject of die innu-
merable young victims of their parents' credulity.  And on
that chapter it must be declared,  that as peculiar &. fecund
offspring of the circulating infection after betoken largely by
each of the generous visited, in the most notorious  gifts,
must be cited scrofulous, ulcerous, pustulous, strumuous,
cancerous, cankerous, affection,  See.—such is part of the
blessing bestowed by the asserted worshipful vaccination,
But,as something  must be said in behalf of the vaccinating 
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process, and that the fascinated and the strenuous ft-iati^
of the  marvellous scheme may urge,  that it has proved
successful in many instances, to preserve the human frame
from the  contagion.  Obliged to  explain  the reason of
such pretended success, one must answer, that by the vac-
cinating deed, the multiplicity of infection  introduced at
once is so powerful, that the filling up the human system
with various contaminating principles,  then it leaves no
chance, no room or vacuity, to the introduction of any
others.  And to be certain of the truth of these assertions,
it must be said that it is the result of long and studious ob-
servation,  which lias discovered that  after the sublime
vaccinating operation has taken place, the strongest of the
various infection introduced by it, prevails by giving, soon-
er  or  later, obvious token of its nefarious nature.  But
to terminate the narrative of this erroneous, pernicious,
and delirious expedient, one must say,  that after the vac-
cinating process has taken place to prove the frantic  de-
lusion  of the true believers, and its efficacious small-pox
preventive virtue, experience, on that score, may assert,
that if effectual means were employed  for the purpose of
cleansing the body of the one who has received the filth
and corruption from the process, and then afterwards ex-
posed  to the variolous contagion, or  small-pox, then it
should evince that the pretended preservative was a ficti-
tious one.   And the true scourge would soon give token,
by  its  appearance, to the credulous of the deceit they had
been imposed by, and themselves of tiieir delusion. But
on that chapter,  obliged  to give  to the candid, impar-
tial enquirer, final conclusion concerning the opinion that
one must have  of the pretended safe-guard cf the direful
disease, what has been said is to prove that among theemi.
nent modern discoveries, that, by their detrimental ten-
dency, have so forcibly illustrated the latter age's madness,
the luminous vaccination  must be computed in regard to
its human deprecating injury, as deserving the palm of su-
periority &also ofextravagancy,& as such ought to be ex-
tolled &. crowned as the master-piece of the physical  sci-
ontifical absurdity—and likewise as such, recorded among
the greatest barbarity,  ever sprouted out of the human 
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  brain.  Obliged to be sincere on the occasion, and to give
  one's sentiment concerning the pretended palladium of the
  physical discovery, it is for the purpose only of informing
  those, who may have been influenced, if not fascinated,
  by the emphatical assertion of the  strenuous promoter of
  fatal expedient, and to give them warning of the unavoid-
  able danger resulting from the exposing their children to
  be infected with  a multiplicity of  noxious disorders, in
  expectation to preserve them "from the danger of a sin-
  gle one.   But to  terminate the revelation that sedulous
  survey can authorise to give on the baneful effects of the
  prevailing mode,  it must be said, that its prolific  diseas-
  es' pro-creating virtue and mortal tendency are such, that,
  if persisting in the depopulating practice,, the  result of
  perseverance of it must be, that after  the progressive de-
  generacy, at last it  must  terminate in the entire extirpation
  of the human race upon earth, if the Creator of the species
  does  not soon interfere in the direful vaccinating scheme,
  and  open the eyes of the credulous concerning the pemi-
  ciousnessand cruelty of submitting themselves to  such a
  degrading process & dangerous means.  But to continue
  the detection of the all-wise  and good Author of Nature,
 with respect to this baneful disorder, and  intimate  to the
 desirous cf his particular  specific against  the dismal ef-
 fects and sinister result of it, it must be said that notwith-
 standing the infinity of the effectual preventive, suscep-
 tible  of protecting  the human frame from  the deplorable
 disorder, besides  certain antidote, the paternal goodness
 of the Creator of all things, and his  infinite goodness has
 provided for the purpose of dispelling the horrid effects of
 the scourge, three distinct,  and cnie  may say sublime,
 substanees.   Therefore  one  is obliged, in. this circum-
 stance, to give of them the special virtues and denomina-
 tion.   And as first, must be cited the precious stone, the
 magnetical  one, or the  load-stone,  and also  the touch-
 stone.   If not enabled to give the full explanation of those
 mysterious substances, one must at least relate their par-
ticular destination.  On that heaq, one must say, that the
o-rmer one, or the precious stone, to those who are not
yersed in the learning of antique record, they must be in- 
as
formed then, that the said precious stone mentioned, c
the one which, in all ages, and m the remotest time of an-
tiquity and ever since, has been the most celebrious sub-
ject that has excited the researches, in all time, «_f the most
capacious, wise, and learned of all nations of the  human
race, and it seems that, by  an  uncxplainable  cause, ihe
discovery has not been levelled to those eminent research-
ers' understanding.  Altiiough in different  times, many
pretenders to the knowledge have argued their being in
possession of it; but as not having, by their authentical
demonstration, given proofs of their veracity, it has been
constantly argued in the world,  that the said philosophical
stone was of a  fictitious  existence.  But as for the mo-
ment we have not to relate the strenuous and laborious tri-
al of the  chemical and  alchvmist artist, their puzzling
and bewildering attempt, we  have only to  relate  the
eminent properties of the occult precious stone, in re.
gard  to  what concern the human body in those  disor-
ders.   And on that topic must be said, that its liquidity,
introduced into the human frame, has the admirable pro-
perty of dilating, vivifying,  refrigerating, and  powerfully-
invigorating human nature, qnd beneficently, in an  instant,
the liquid substance spreads itself all over the system, and
convevs in every part that is v. anting, life, relief, and com-
fort, and divinely  diffuses  the  bliss of the Creator, and
evinces the beneficent effects of the Universal Bestower,
and palpably demonstrate the benefit of the substance cre-
ated for the purpose of cleansing the vital flame,  and  its
liquidity out of its noxious filth,and the scourges (k infec-
tion.   Such  is delineated, in part the performance that in
all diseases, and especially in the one of the small-pox con-
tagion, that operate the precious  stone, or its  beneficent
spirit, on the frame  of the infected.   And for what con-
cern the office of the load-stone, and the use  it can be,  if
necessary in  those cases, must be said, that its peculiar
properties are, that applied in any part of the body, by its
attractive qualities, it has the one of diverting and attract-
ing to itself the morbific infection to the place upon which it
is applied—and then give chance afterwards to have it ex-
pelled effectually cut of the frame.  And also for what
concerns the use of the touch-stone in those disordrr.. 
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 must be said, that it3 nature indicates to.be intended to
 annihilate in an instant the pustulous and virulent matter
 contained in them, and to dry them in a few days, and
 that without leaving the least mark and traces on the place of
 the cutaneous eruption.  Such is the  succinct narrative,
 and the  abbreviated resources, that the  universal Healer
 can produce to prevent the sinister and defigurating effects
 of the contagious scourge, if seated powerfully on the face
 and body.   Then they who are taken  this moment for
 particular confidents of the providential  Father's expedi-
 ent for what concern those cases, they may have decided
 if they deserve  the  preference on those occasions, over
 the methodical vaccinating scheme, and likewise if they
 are worth a little more than a cent per  day compensation.
 But in order to have a decisive conclusion on the matter,
 one must continue of some other diseases,  of the Crea-
 tor's remedies to give the detection, and the rich catalogue
 and complicated one of human diseases, the chronical dis-
 orders, by their nature and multiplicity, may be computed
to contribute to have illustrated the Heavenly Father's capa-
 city.  And as the most notorious ones, must  be cited the
 gout and rheumatism's affections, &.c.  And for what con-
 cerns them,notwithstanding one must say that the use in pro-
 per time of the precious stone essential spirit,should prove to
 be an effectual preventive against those diseases of the afore-
 said nature, but for those who are suddenly  attacked by
 s-uch disorders, if not for some space of time contracted in
 tiieir limbs, before they make their application, one must
 say that the virtue  cf the  precious stone,  in those  cases,
 is such as to have generally demonstrated  that few  hours
 had been sufficient to effect the relief of  the afflicted, and
 one day to re-establish them in their former state of health.
 And for  those of long standing, if obliged to give the re-
 sult of experience for what concerns them, on that scope
 one must say, that in many cases of an inveterated spe-
 cies, the omnific Author of Nature's bounty has been very
 conspicuous in affording efficacious, powerful, and bene-
 ficent remedies to the afflicted of those acute diseases, not-
withstanding their invetcrated species.   And continuing
to give more proof of the Universal Father's solicitude for 
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 his distressed children, potently manifested in the sp?edi-
 ness and efficacy of his occult expedients.   Long experi-
 ence may urge on that head, that in cholic, of whatever
 species they may be, and in iliac passion, or the  twisting
 of the guts, a few minutes in those cases have proved suf-
 ficient to alleviate the pain, and effectually relieve the af-
 flicted, and also a few days have proved sufficient to re-
 store them to their former state of health, notwithstanding
 their perilous situation; and likewise in cholera morbus,
 and spitting and puking of the blood,those complaints taken
 in their first stage, experience has informed that very little
 while is necessary to  check the disordeis, and  effectually
 save the afflicted from a certain death.  But to relate other
 cases in  which the  Almighty and good Creator evinces
 the virtue of the precious  stone by its speedv efficacy, as
 most palpable and visible effects, must be cited the jaun-
 dice, the yellow pest, and olive one, on those occasions, if
 those  disorders have  not  been of too long standing, the
 use of the occult remedy  gives chance to the observer to
 see  the miraculous operation gradually taking place on
 the body  of the infected, by sensibly discolouring the epu
 dermis of its saffron hue, and according to the length of time
 that the infection has made its appearance, a few hours or
 a few days prove sufficient to effectually dislodge the pesti-
 ferous human foe, and extirpate it out of the frame, and
 restore the infected with the scourge to their natural state
 of complexion.   And for what  concerns some  of chroni-
 cal and periodical disorders, to which the human species
 are exposed, in them are included the epilepsy, or the fall-
 ing-sickness, added  to that  the distressing a...:mri—for
 those disorders,  or any one of the iikc nature, experience
 authorises to assert, that like others, taken in their origin,
 the omnificent Creator of occult remedies gives to  them
 qualities, necessary to expel those disorders, and prevent
 them from becoming inveterated and identified to the sys-
 tem of the afflicted with those diseases.   And also one is
 obliged to declare, that the disorders of the said species,
after a long standing, by perseverance and punctuality in
making use of those remedies, the attention has proved,
in  those complaints, to have r.uccr-cdcd beyond exnecta- 
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 tiou.   And in continuing to cite the infirmities in which
 the power of the secret substance is the most  ostensible,
 and in which, by its forcible effects, pertinacity could be
 confuted, if pertinacity  could yield to the demonstrative
 evidence in witnessing the omni-benevolent virtue, which
* the august Creator has  bestowed upon the occult stone,
 its miraculous operation is wonderful in palsy,  on any
 sudden loss of the use of the limbs, or any part of the bo-
 dy—in those cases the Divine Power and his omnific re-
 medies are too conspicuous to  be denied, when the af-
 flicted have been deprived of their limbs for several weeks,
 as a few hours hav« many times proved sufficient to have
 evinced the divine favour of the benevolent Dispensator &
 the specifical and magical, virtue of his specific, by restor-
 ing the deprived of their limbs to their former faculties.
 And the citation of the truth, on this occasion, is for die
 purpose of declaring to the afflicted, that in those diseases, if
 not waiting too long, that nature has in her power infallible
 remedies to alleviate their afflictions.   And likewise to cite
 some other cases in which the heavenly & charitable Bene-
 factor can give proofto the incredulous of his paternal heed,
 must be related the suppression of water or stranger)', &c.
 caused by stone in the bladder, gravel, &c.—in those dis-
 orders, although of long standing, as in those local cases
 the hidden substance enabled effectually to reach the part
 affected.   On that score, giving also the result of the sur-
 prising efficacy of the said remedy, one must say, that
 with it a powerful calcifragus is an efficacious antagonist
 of the disorders in the bladder.  And by its deterging qua-
 lities and dissolving ones, it clears  the  passage impeded
 and obstructed, which sudden and  efficacious  operation,
 more than any thing that could  be said  in the behalf of
 the salutary specific, eloquently7 informing of the  infinite
 wisdom and bountiful attention of the general Creator,
 and proclaims his universal benevolence.   And with re-
 gard to some other cases, as insanity, and disorders of the
 like species—on that score, also referring, one must say,
 to the multiplied means procreated to alleviate human mi-
 sery, the power  of the  already mentioned load-stone is
 evinced on those  occasions,  by powerfully diverting and 
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attracting, as magnet does steel, into some other part, the
noxious substance polluting the sensorium & confusing the
human reason,if not of a long standing upon it,&also not ob-
structed from going out of the place,  must be said, that
experience is empowered to inform, that, in a short time;
the receptacle of human understanding, by various means,
is soon cleared of its flagitious  visitor, and the deprived
of rational  faculties, soon restored to their former intel-
lects, friends, relations, and society.  And in regard to
bites of venomous insects and poisonous animals, vipers,
scorpions, rattle-snakes, &c. and  also vegetables of any
description—on that chapter, if one can say what can be
done and what has been done,  with the assistance of the
generous and wise Dispensator's remedies, in those cases
one is authorised to say-that their efficacy is of such a speedy
nature,that in the first instant when the accident takes place,
if having the antidote prepared, one minute, for any of the a-
fbresaid cases, is sufficientto inform the affected that the in-
tention of the Author of Nature was not to have created any
thing upon earth, animals, &c. for the purpose of destroying
the first being on it.  And to convince of the truth, expe-
rience is enabled to assert that those cases can be eradicat-
ed in a  short time, and even after  some  time  standing,
and in a  critical situation, the heavenly bounty  manifest-
ed  in the power of its  remedies, has  always proved
successful to the relief of the afflicted.  And being on the
sorrowful chapter of dangerous bites, one is forced also to
cite  the most terrifying one, and which is generally fol-
lowed by the most dreadful consequences.  And as such
must be  related the baneful  hydrophobia occasioned by
the bites of mad dogs.   But to prevent such sinister and
deplorable catastrophe as the one that does generally take
place, it must be revealed, that the providential benefac-
tion, so extensive and powerful  to prevent  a  mournful
danger, attending those cases, that experience has found,
after many weeks, successful expedients, informing that
the human race have a great while to seek for the reme-
dies in those  fortuitous events,  that can prevent them
from perishing by the frightful death of the bite of those
mad animals.   And for the nnrnose,  the most effectual 
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-specific that oaii be cited and made use of, is the heaven-
 ly precious stone, or the Universal Creator's sublime anti-
 dote,& arcanum which use, on those occasions, forcibly in-
 dicate to be calculated in a short time to expel the dangerous
 venom out of the human body.  And if enabled to separate-
 ly relate the omnipotent virtue, that the  celestial benevo-
 lent Pharmacian has been pleased to bestow on his super-
 excellent  catholicon, one must resume  them by telling,
 that notwithstanding  their infallible properties  to  extir-
 pate all sorts of human diseases, its use, in time, has also
 the one to prevent any7 human malady from visiting their
 frame.  Such  is the  compendium that can be given of
 the eminent qualities of the most famous and occult sub-
 stance, which unparalleled virtue  cannot  be compared,
 but with its renown and most antique celebrity, to which
 one  might add many other secret properties, net less ex-
 traordinary, if the time was suitable to the purpose.  But
 one cannot  quit the enormous human maladies' lexicog-
 raphy, without speaking of the one of the most distressing
 afflictions, which the present human nature is liable to, and
 for sensible  hearts  of beholders* will be  always a subject
 of grief, sorrowful reflection, and dismay.   And as such
 must be cited those of the hapless and  unfortunate hu-
 man beings, deprived of contemplating  the  magnificent
 scenery of the starry firmament, and the continual pheno-
 mena visibly displayed in the  boundless space of the re-
 splendent heavenly kingdom, which nature, to rational be-
 ings, powerfully demonstrate the magnitude of the Crea-
 tor's principal Cause, and the first Mover and Governour
 of the world.  And added to such grieving deprivation,
 the one of being  prevented of having the sight of their
 own fellow-creature's countenance.   But on that score it
 must be revealed, if long, ostensible, and  palpable demon-
 strations have not  been sufficient to inform of the truth
 concerning the provident Pro-Creator's goodness, or if the
proceeding has not been deemed worthy to have been ob-
 served, that  in order to prevent such a lamentable afflic-
tion, as the one of having the superior animal of the earth
buried alive  in the immense darkness of a perpetual night,
and spend their days in the continued sorrows of having 
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the whole world to live in, in a similar situation, as if being
confined in a tenebrous coffin. But to abbreviate the lachry-
mal reflection, that such a case can suggest, to prevent it
from taking place no more with mankind, than other crea-
tures, supported by long and authentical experience, one
cannot hesitate to affirm, that the universal Dispensator, to
preserve in men the precious organ, or sense, serving to
contemplate their own Maker's unlimited power  and in-
Comprehensible dominion for the purpose, his invaluable
wisdom  and paternal goodness are most conspicuously
demonstrated, by his having  created  infallible specific,
not only to save mankind from the losing such precious
and essential sense, as the one of sight, but also to  pre-
serve  such an  indispensable organ from decay,  and to
keep it to the last of their day7s free from pain, and also in
a vigorous state, susceptible of performing its intended
destination.  Such is the unequivocal revelation that one
must give concerning the precious expedient, that the om-
nificent Father has profusely bestowed upon earth for the
express purpose of preserving the human animals in the
plenitude of their visual faculties, and that the infallible effi-
cacy7 of those remedies destined to be made use of, for such
a tender organ as the one of sight, have such a power that in
case of accident or sudden affection, a few minutes are suffi-
cient to give the afflicted speedy proofs of their own Maker's
wisdom and unbounded benevolence. But in those cases, as
in innumerable others, notwithstanding the great and good
Author of Nature's bounty ,one is obliged to declare that no-
thing is provided to raise the dead, and more in eyes' disor-
der, or blindness, if the whole system of the sense is destroy-
ed, and which one can easily believe, if one consider,  with
close attention, 1^\e minute symmetry and  the w7onderful
economy of the fragile organ, and its multiplied fibres, and
their infinite complicated ramification with all parts of the
head, and which admirable contrivance, for the students
of nature, forcibly demonstrate to their eyes the conspicu-
ous wisdom, and the Creator's omnificency, which admi-
rable work, with respect to the sense of sight, ought to in-
duce in the belief, relying on the eternal Father's bounty,
that *™*Tr,,3n  thf> firRt animal most privileged one, to pre- 
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serve in them  such precious  instrument  as the one of
sight, by the provident and universal Contriver, some ex-
pedient must have been created, of an efficacious tenden-
cy.  Therefore, if such is the sentiment that the zealous
admirers of the paternal  goodness must have, one  must
confirm them in their opinion, by informing them that, on
that score, mankind have  nothing to wish for, but only to
demonstrate more anxiety to survey the wonder that can
be  operated  by their  own  Creator's  remedies, and to
evince more eagerness  to possess such a precious know-
ledge, and to have less  contempt for those, who  palpably
denote to have it, and to be fully entrusted with the key-
opening the door of their  inexhaustible treasure.  There-
fore, to  terminate such  an extensive chapter as the one of
human  manifold infirmities,  grounded on unexamplified
practice and experience, one must positively and finally
declare  to those who  are unacquainted with their own
Maker's unbounded wisdom and bounty, that there are
no diseases, of whatever species they may be, and which
the human frame is  liable to, but the efficacy of his reme-
dies, could not  only prevent and eradicate, in a very  short
time, in applying to those intended specifics ; but  what
could prevent them from taking place, and that, by the
despised and scoffed charitable distribution, and the re-
ceiving from it  efficacious antidote.  And  if the relating
their inestimable virtues, in  numerous instances, which,
one might say,  miraculous operation, if mentioning of it
is not for the sake of expecting encomium ;  and to per-
suade captious detractors cf the reality of the declaration,
at least it must  be for the purpose of informing of the in-
finite goodness and wisdom of the provident Dispensator,
and have his paternal affection, by the pious and afflicted,
praised  and return, after the relief of their distress, thanks
and glory to the Fountain of the provident dispensation.
But  to  this incomplete account and one  must say suc-
cinct abbreviation of the Heavenly Father's goodness, not-
withstanding that the pursuit of delivering his remedies,
for long elapsed time, has palpably demonstrated the om-
nific resources existing upon earth to help the human spe-
cies, those who are taken to partake their virtue, 8c the spe- 
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 cial confidents of their supernal effects.  Notwithstanding,
 their experience on that head, fit to corroborate the truth,
 one may presume that, if they should reveal what is dis-
 closed to them concerning the wonders, that the Author
 of Nature's remedies can produce on the human body, the
 assertion would exasperate a multitude of disbelievers in
 the irregular virtues of vernacular substances.   And rely-
 ing also on the experience acquired of scrupulous faith of
 those ardent zealots, sincere admirers and strenuous wor-
 shippers of the Creator's goodness, one may infer, that, fu-
 riously incensed by such assertion, as the one declaring the
 beneficency of the Supreme Being's specific, in opposition
 to it, and the benign expedient, the fervent defenders and
 patrons of the privileged regular practice,ardentlv extolling
 and preserving their superior qualities. One cannot doubt
 that, on this occasion, if the revelation was made to them,
 religiously they would assert that there is no such thing in
 nature, as  to prevent mankind from being diseased, and
 also live without pain, and that the  only  asserting of it
 deserves exprobation.   And those faithful admirers of
 methodical doctrine, contemning and ridiculing others to
 their opponents, should pertinaciously assert that with re-
 gard to physical knowledge, none oan be acquired supe-
 rior to the  one of draining the human body of its blood,
 and also of giving them in its room the quick-silver liqui-
 dity7, and  consequently to be authorized to make use of
 such super-excellent and  exclusive remedy, those who
 have not been regularly educated, trained,  and inured in
 the  sublime science of making the human frame an ef-
 fectual barometer, or luxurious looking-glasses, then those
 who are illiterated in such illustrious learning, are obnox-.
 ious miscreants.   And more  so, if they have not added.
 to their profound science to acquire a practicable one, spent
 most part of their life to perfection—their skill, ability, and
 admirable art, stilled the peaceful dead out of their last seat
 of repose, and the one of their dissolution—and bereave, by
 the deed, the worms of their intended sustinence.  And
that by corpse larceny, manifesting not to be satisfied with
having, while living, mutilated,  scarified, cicatrized, ex-
carnified their bodies while alive., still wanting to do it af- 
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ter their death.   And that. to  have an enticing contem-
plation and assiduous study7 of their discarnated carcases,
in order, one must believe, to be intimately  acquainted
with the quick-silver operation ;  and consequently, those
who dare make revelation to those besotted of such hu-
man knowledge, that the one of the  charitable distribution
is not acquired  by robbing the dead  out  of their graves,
of their flesh, and the verminous  insects of their food, and
the living one of the substance of their purse—then those
who make such revelation to the advocates of the privileged
science, must expose themselves to their  sarcastical lam-
poons, and the  usual interrogation, Who has he cured V
Grounded on the tenor of their experience and trial of the
remedies, and from the revelation made to  them, they
have always the same answer  to make to those captious
incredulous, Who has he killed?  But as such reply  h
no proof to persuade those contumacious  belovers of re-
gular practice, for whom nothing is worthy of regard, but
pomp, show, and magnificent exhibition, and consequent-
ly that a man who, to convince of his knowledge, makes
no external appearance, and despises making of his body
a puppet-show, and a pattern dress, and of his dwelling a
chapel of furniture adoration, and of his limbs useless in-
struments, and contemns to make parade  of himself, con-
fined in a shrine, as tutelary7 patron of laziness, and for the
purpose keep a number of idolized and idle beasts, then the
very man who relucts pageantry,is the very one who knows
nothing, who does nothing, and whose  remedies are not
worth any7 thing, because they cost nothing, and that they
have not bereaved widow's and orphans  of any thing. But
to explain the cause of those idolizers of magnificency,
the one of those pecuniary  strenuous pursuers' contesta-
tion, fanatic adorers of pomp and ostentation, refusing to
believe in the Author of Nature's benefaction, and to have
a proof of it—exploding to make observation,  then one
must  again terminate the digression of those sensible
wishers of human preservation,  by giving  the last com-
pendium of their pious adoration, and ol the prevailing
objects of  their predilection, fit only to  stimulate their
tender heart exultation,viz. Congreve rockets, torpedo, be- 
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neficent catamaran, diabolical machine, sportive invention
of satan, imaginated to inflame, and in fulminent volcanoes
transform the ocean—and all the toys of execrable memo-
ry, the infernal son of Chatham.  Therefore, as for tiiose
human  breasts, endowed with compassion, nothing but
those benign auspicious inventions deserve survey, rap-
ture, and the  author's veneration; and  w hat is  done to
demonstrate the Master of the world's benediction, by his
modern  devotees is  not worth notice and attention, ex-
cept of those it does provoke the rage and exasperation,
and with some other spell  of laughing, scorn, and deri-
sion, and for the bold infonners, until worse stigmas and
profuse malediction.   But in this juncture, relying on the
prudence and discretion of those, who  friendly are  en-
trusted  to read this production, one must hope, that it
shall not excite sneer, geer, and for the author's impreca-
tion, and now what hint is given of the Creator's dispensa-
tion, is only in order to have the last definition, if the re-
medies delivered at the charitable distribution are in reali-
ty worth to do good to one's self and others, as retalia-
tion, a little more per day than a cent's compensation.
Rewards, fees, emoluments, immunities,  recompense, pro-
fit, gain, lucrative pecuniary pursuit, fortune, &c.  Such
is the present standard by which the inhabitants of this
world are exclusively guided, and the general stimulus,
and the alluring objects of all pursuit.   But if  what has
been said and done already to demonstrate the disinterest-
edness of the  charitable  proceeding, is  not sufficient to
persuade of the miraculous properties existing in the re-
medies delivered, when punctually and carefully  attended
to, supported by long and authentical  demonstration, if
the fact evinced before the eyes of the  most inveterated
sceptics, could not be denied, and that to have the won-
derful  efficacy of the wise  Author of Nature's  specific,
corroborated and publicly  acknowledged,  such  inerrable
truth could challenge the  most  arduous and tenacious
scrutiny, for the purpose of having the facts confirmed—
then one must ask those who received those remedies, if
thev can  believe  that if the least wish of making profit
was  the object of the distributor,  they can think that 
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 he would be satisfied to receive their little more,'for his
 trouble, pain, and expenses, than a cent per day compensa-
 tion, & even if it wras all profit, which is the reverse, & that
 to compensate remedies, which all the gold of the world,
 and all its pretended precious objects, could not purchase
 any where else.  Therefore, after having so long and for-
 cibly contemned and always exploded any thing like re-
 ward  and  gain, and contrary to  that,  having  wilfully,
 cheerfully, and  without regret, spent  life,  wealth, and
 health, to assuage human misery, and when the  facts are
 so ostensible and palpable, nothing but malice and stupi-
 dity can believe  that there is any other interest in the bu-
 siness, but the one  of fulfilling a sacred duty, in  yielding
 to the command of God, and to the impulsion of a sym-
 pathizing heart,  compelling  to offer relief to  suffering
 helpless humanity.   But before quitting a subject so te-
 dious and disagreeable in its nature, for the one  who has
 so long proved that he has not got any  thing, which he
 has not squandered in  fulfilling his task, and delivering
 remedies of an incomparable, unequivocal, and  infallible
 tendency;  but if not supposing the distributor of being
 endowed with imbecility and blindness, concerning the
 advantage it could withdraw from the efficacy of his occult
 specifics, if prompted by a want  of making profit, if the
 real value was fixed by him to his expedients, and that ac-
 cording to  their operation, which should be doubtless,
 then if a price was laid upon them, in this age  of pride
 and ostentation,  as nothing is deemed valuable to  the eyes
 of the proud living race, but what is extremely difficult to
 be  acquired, or what can cost a  great sum of money.
 Then among the wealthy cast, as  one may suppose, that
 many  may have some anxiety for life, and if it could be
 bought by  them at an exorbitant rate, and with it if they
 had  one insured, free from pain and misery, and deformi-
 ty of old age, and in the bargain to have it protracted be-
 yond expectation—if such was  the resolution of the gra-
 tuitous pursuit to change it for an interested one, and who
could prevent it,and likewise to have all the advantages that
 could be had by the remedies proelaimed,andto have them
publicly advertised,in order to be purchased by the hi" V?" 
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 bidders.  And as to what concerns the astonishing vir.
 tues of the specific employed, as their infallibility is such
 that one must say that they are declared without hyperbo-
 le and exaggeration, and consequently that far from being
 disappointed in their expectation, the purchasers should
 receive  still more than  what could be promised  to them,
 then if it was the  case,  as one could pledge one's self for
 the operation that die wonderful remedies should perform,
 one must ask then, what adequate value could be set up-
 on them, and if their price was elevated in proportion to
 their effectual benefits, who could purchase such surpris-
 ing expedient upon earth ?  And notwithstanding num-
 bers boasting of their excessive riches, if the measure was
 adopted, who could purchase with them what  has been
 delivered gratuitously,  but kings and the most powerful
 and wealthy potentates of the world *  But in every thing,
 the wisdom and impartiality of the Governour of the
 world is obviously manifested to convince those  crowned
 heads, patterns of show and ostentation, as no distinction
 is made for them to share the vulgar lot, and that, on that
 scope, the most abject of their subjects  are no more  free
 from pain  and misery, and have better expedient than
.their ruling chiefs.  Like others, as no exception is made,
 and that a perfect equality is found to exist among  mankind
 with regard to agony, diseases, and death, the occult spe-
 cific,  preventing, besides the common excruciation, and
 protracting human existence.  With such riches, if there
 were ant reality and interested views, as maliciously and
 stupidly argued, that the charitable distribution is in want
 of making profit, it should have proved it long ago, by
 having laid the most high  value upon what has hitherto
 been delivered for nothing.  And such measure shoui.1.
 have been preferable, if the general interest was not the
 main object in view, then to the wearing out the vital fa-
 culties,  and the being daily exposed to contend against
all the infections issuing from minds and bodies.   And if
lucrative pursuit had been  preferred, ?s it  has  been ex-
ploded, we have now to investigate the consequences that
should have resulted from the resolution of selling to the
highest price '.he  r.-:»'_di...s winch. mr.? b;': the richest 
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 cast should have been enabled to enjoy.   And if it bad
 been the case, one  must ask in what situation it should
 have left the plebeian one, and the industrious and labori-
 ous artificers, mechanics, husbandmen, &c. & in what state
 of despair it should have left them, by beholding that none
 but those of the most wealthy species should have been ad-
 mitted to have their lives saved, protracted, and enabled to
 live without pain and diseases ?  Therefore, when for then-
 own welfare having contemned and still contemning all the
 riches of the world, and for their interest having preferred to
 harass  one's life and body, and waste and lavish proper-
 ties, and live without rest and comfort—those considera-
 tions one ought to presume to be of a nature to induce
 those who are seeking after relief, not to regret  the modi-
 city of their expense, and to be anxious to serve their own
 cause, and the one of their own fellow-creatures.  But to
 throw more light on the principle guiding the charitable
 pursuit, before quitting the prolix  chapter, it must be a
 matter agreed on all hands, that gold and silver are the
 source of all evil, and upon that head long and fatal  expe-
 rience has too pi? inly informed that all crimes and iniqui-
 ties upon earth, have generally for origin stimulus and re-
 ward, those  idolized metallic substances.   Hence, if the
 proof of this truth is  too palpable to be contested, and
 that conspicuously a curse indicates to  be attached to
 those modern universal idols, it remains to determine if
 those noxious substances, aitho' the one of human predilec-
 tion, by the Creator of precious and efficacious remedies,by
 him one must ask if it appear probable diat, if a curse is laid
 on those metallic substances, that they can be deemed by
 the universal Inspector, fit to set value on his benevolent
 dispensation.  Because one cannot be tired to repeat that
 the man who knows nothing, who does nothing, and whose
 remedies are not w7orth any thing, if in opposition to those
 frantic and iniquitous assertions, he does prove that his
 vilified expedients have proved, or can in time  prove, to
 strict examination, that they are, by their infallible effica-
 cy, the genuine and natural offspring of the universal Pro-
 creator, which effect  ought to lead to have the belief that
their use and bcneficency are an obvious and ausnirious 
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 omen of the celestial wisdom and compassion.  And that
 for those who receive the advantage of being relieved, or
 any one beholding and believing in heavenly goodness,
 that the effects must be a super-natural one, unless  the
 pious and sincere believers in the omni-presence and per-
 spicacity of the one, whom those scrupulous and right-
 eous beings pretend to worship, the ubiquity argue  that
 every thing taking place in this world, as well as the par-
 ticular virtue of all substances belonging to the terrestri-
 al creation, are the bare effect of contingency, and that no-
 thing is submitted upon earth to the supernal inspection,
 and consequently  indicating die being perfectly intimated
 with the mystery, which importance and nature must be
 acknowledged by their extraordinary effects, not to be le-
 yelled or intended to be so for human understanding, and
 according to the Usual doctrine of those true belivers, the
 initiation into those occult arts can be acquired by Study,
 and do not require the help of the owner, and his special
 consent for the purpose.   But solely speaking, in  this oc-
 currence, or intending to only speak to  those who have
 not, one may hope,  their minds  infested with materiali-
 ty, or the  atheism doctrine—therefore, one may expect
 that they will not suppose that the receiving forcible spe-
 cimen of the bountiful wisdom of the paternal Author of
 their existence,  and his manifested solicitude in affording
 expedients and  the knowledge of them upon earth, ena-
 bling to effectually succeed in the relief of their misery,
 then  they who can receive such a plight of the supreme
 sway, one must be authorised to believe that they will not
 infer that the nature  and those effects, must be attributed
 to pure  hazard, and  the result to an absolute contingency.
 But after having  so long and so particularly related the
 potent motives which, by their principles, ought to con-
 vince the generality  of those who  make application to the
 gratuitous  pursuit,  and  which ought to be sufficient to
 persuade any one of the essential benefit that could result
 for the human species, and principally  those who are de-
 sirous of being acquainted with the danger of making use
 of articles, procreator of  their pain  and manifold mise-
ries.  If nothing  can  persuade avarice and selfishness 
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 of the truth, of the use they could be, if yielding to do what
 is desired from them, and if they still persist in the be-
 lief that, to the last, for them and without their trying to
 help of doing good to others, to retaliate the one they re-
 ceive from the charitable distribution, and if, without any
 assistance, the distributor must spend his whole life and
 properties in the attempt of giving relief to  the  afflicted,
 but if not wanting much for himself, but a great deal for
 others,, and if willing and cheerfully not regretting what
 has been long and palpably squandered to serve the cause
 of the  distressed, and ready to continue in  lavishing life
 and properties in fulfilling an incumbent duty.  But to
 protract the good it can do, how long can  the  property
 last, spended every day without any return, is what  we
 must  _ 7 to d termine, and besides, where  can  the  said
 property be vv .-red and preserved in safetv, and that in a
 convulsed and piratical world, when political and moral
 principle seems  to be totally  subverted, because it is a
 matter too well known by a continual experience to be
 Contested,  that the characteristic of the modern age is
 fraud, deceit, and general extortion.   And for what con-
 cern the usual means of acquiring the property of others,
 it is a point undeniable that ulcerated principles, and gan-
 grenated conscience, have  nothing sacred,  and that all
 means are good to  satiate an inordinate lust of gain, and
 consequently what  is intended  to support the charitable
 distribution may serve to  the  use of irascible rapacity,
 and may have met or be exposed to meet with multiplied
 bankruptcies.  If there  is any reality in the matter,  is
 what is left undecided.  But the truth, proves the little
 safetv  there is, in this latter age,  in trusting property to
 rapacious  hands.   And continuing the danger to which
 may be exposed the property o0 the charitable  distribu-
 tion some  instances  may be one day related, that it has
not been always respected by even those who had receiv-
ed trom it the most essential and extraordinary  service,
which, if it was the case, it would serve to inform of the
ingenuous expedient of acquiring wealth without trouble,,
because may be one day, one could have to cite, that some
covetous being entrusted with properties belonging to the 
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charitable distribution for the purpose of disposing  of
some articles to the best advantage ;  but forgetting the
benefit they had received from the said properties, to have
a part of it some unscrupulous individuals may have re-
course one day, or may have had recourse to fraudulous
schemes, and may declare their not being able to find any
sale for articles but to a very great disadvantage ; but con-
trary to that it may be found out, afterwards, that  they
had better chance, and of course may want to make easy
gain.  And if instances of the like could be cited, refer-
ring to the prevailing propensity,  by the judicious the
matter is left to be determined.  But in the  asre of uni-
versal speculation, as cupidity is the ruling compass, to
prove it one might also one day  be enabled to mention
some other cases, and repeat that other beings, after their
having having likewise received the most important ser-
vice from the  charitable distribution, entrusted also  with
its property to dispose to the best  advantage, ensnared by
their externa* appearance, and under  the cloak of probity
and piety, profitable scheme of speculation, and also suc-
cessful baits to effectually hook and catch confidence with,
unaware of the artful means  employed  by hypocritical
schemers, then some of them may7 have succeded or may
succeed one day, unable to  read plainly in the intricating
maze of perfidious hearts, through their disguise, may be
entrusted in-  their  rapacious hands,  properties, which
they might not scruple or have scrupled to confiscate after-
wards a good part of them, to indemnify themselves of the
trouble of keeping the  said  property.  And if there is
any probability that some similar circumstances may have
taken place, or may take place at some future period, the
case is left to be decided by the sagacious appreciators of
human modern virtue.   And on  that head, as palpable
specimen of it, it must be confessed, to add  to what has
been said, although it should require to make a long nar-
ration, if obliged to give a citation of  all the  artifice traps,
and a snare that can be employed to commit petty theft,
cunning knaveries, cheating of all sorts, sly tricks, and
various larceny, to which may be or has been exposed
the  charitable distribution,  by ravenous metallic beings. 
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Borne others also, more honest after their having received
signalized advantages, & to testify their obligation of them,
may have offered to be of service to the charitable dis-
tribution, by having asserted that they had good chance
of disposing favourably of properties that should be in
want of sale, and may be, availing of the opportunity, some
property might have been, or may be entrusted one day, in-
to the hands of those officious beings, who afterwards, not
satisfied to sacrifice what they urged to sell in a profitable
manner, they may afterwards charge double of the com-
mon price for  their trouble.   But, added to the continual
danger to which the charitable distribution's property may
be exposed by entrusting it, relying on  honest tongues,
concealing the  deformity  of mortified hearts,  without
trusting it, it may be exposed to some other danger, by
the reason, that some pecuniary rayenous beings may one
day avail themselves of some favourable opportunity and
forcible probability of the legitimacy of a claim, and for
the purpose they must have recourse to  counterfeiting
writings, and also forging signs, &c.; and with such mon-
strous expedients, the perpetrators may succeed one day
to extort the charitable distribution out of its property', and,
by such a horrid deed, defraud the afflicted of their patri-
mony, and the distributor of his indispensable resources.
And if such villanous scheme has taken place, or if it can
take place one day, the solution is left to the judicious ap-
preciators of the incredible virtue of the modern age.—
Obliged to mention part of the various engines and fraud-
ulous artifices, and vile tricks that can be made use of for
the purpose of bereaving the charitable distribution out
of its property, what is said is for the sake only of demon-
strating how extremely difficult it must  he found, if not
taking the fortune of any—how hard it must be for the cha-
ritable distribution to keep its own.  And on that score
also, it cannot be denied, that besides what has been said,
the dwelling of the depository of the charitable distribu-
tion's property may meet with efraction, and consequently
be robbed of whatever civilized pirates may find valuable,
and what may be easily taken away, and that  by those
Hying in the same place with the charitable distribution, 
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and who, afterwards, to cover their deeds, and prevent
themselves  from  being suspected, the depredacious pi-
rates themselves may advertise, and besides offer rewards
to those who could be the detectors of their infamous and
scandalous  crimes.   Whether such events, like  many
others, can have taken place, or will  in future take place,
having such multiplied specimen of modern civilized vir-
tue, is left to be decided by the candid appraisers of their
species.   But at all events, without affirming the fact, its
probability  may serve for  advice to have caution, and
leave no chance to the  civilized predacious mortals of
making a trial, without meeting with  a kind reception;
and that with little prospect of making great gain for their
trouble.   But what is said on the matter of the danger to
which the property may be exposed, serving to maintain
the charitable distribution, if there was some ground left
to suspect that there might be some  probability of such a
circumstance  of the  like nature having taken place, or
which could take place some days, it could serve to prove
the extreme difficulty for the charitable distribution to
keep its own, and could serve  also to elucidate the lat-
ter age's righteous  principle, and the prevailing one
professed in the world.  And such predominant honesty
must induce the beholder to make  the  reflection on the
subject, that, if those  who have been or shall be indebted
for their lives, or the assuage of their pain £nd misery, to
the property that deserves so little of their regard after-
wards, in what manner then do they deal with the proper-
ty of others.  But without lengthening the matter, what
is said, if not altogether destitute of foundation, may give
a hint of the species of fortune that may be made and has
been made by the  charitable distribution, and likewise in-
struct the nature of reward that the disinterested distribu-
tor may have received or may be apt to receive, to com-
pensate  his trouble.   But being on the chapter of grati-
tude, one cannot quit it without making some digression
of the quality so eminently adorning  the latter age's civil-
ized race of this world, and to be succinctly  intimated
with the opinion, that the lovers of virtue  have with re-
gard to  those who  deviate  from the  grateful  doctrine, 
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their sentiment may be known in the following sentence,
viz.—" Ingratitude is but one crime,"—that is to say,—
" comprehends them all."  But in order to be more com.
pletely informed of the species of the transgression to the
dictate of nature, if only on that head preferring to the
lessons given by the wise  Procreator of all living crea-
tures, and  taking a brief survey of the universal work;
what  concern  the animal creation, if for the  purpose of
being informed of the implicit intention of the Implanter
of natural qualities, with respect to the one of gratitude,
minute and sedulous study, observing the infinite species
of animals of the  terrestrial  creation, finding none, but
testifying their gratitude for kind  service, and no story
whatever having informed mankind of instances of ingra-
titude  committed by irrational creatures, even the  most
ferocious ones of the earth, no records relating that any
of them had forgotten the service they had received from
their benefactors.   Then if none can evince tiieir fbrget-
fulness,on that point, one must infer then, that the princi-
ple of gratitude must be the genuine one, belonging to the
work of the Supreme Creator of all things, and that the devi-
ating from his intention on the matter must be computed
an odious crime to the  law of his omni-present tribunal,
when not having created the most savage and ferocious of
all animals, without their having been  endowed wTith
grateful affections.  Hence, having no instances to relate
of the guilt of the brute creation, with respect to their be-
ing destitute of grateful feeling, we have to relate the one
of the animal, intended to be the rational one and the su-
perior of the earth.  And among the most notorious deeds
of ingratitude that the records of antiquity have transmit-
ted to successive human race, no  sensible heart, without
sentiments of horror, will receive the sorrowful recitation
of Cicero's tragical end, and  sinister catastrophe, and be
intimated with the nature of his martyrdom,without exe-
cration for the monstrous author  w7ho caused his death.
Therefore  forever the odious name of his murderer, Po-
pilius, will remain  celebrated in the annals of  the most
ungrateful trespasses, and  as such will be transmitted to
future human  race, when the barbarous perpetrator gave 
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death to the man w7hose oratorical ability had succeeded
with it to save his life, and due to his powerful eloquence,
the one who dismissed him  out of the world, had been
rescued  from terminating his days by  an ignominious
end.  And absolved from the monstrous crime of para-
cide or of his father's destruction,  and for such eminent
service and reward of his successful devotion, the  re-
nowned victim has received the fatal blow, that separa-
ted the seat of his genius and eloquence, from his body.
On such a sorrowful  scene, one cannot but regret, that
his irresistible elocution has been grossly prostituted on
the occasion, of defending the cause of the most atrocious
trespasses, that can be  committed by  mankind  upon
earth.   And  on such baneful matter, one has but  one
wish to make, which is, that such example, that has com-
pensated the service of defending horrid deed, may serve
of admonishment to inform officious supporters, and zeal-
ous defenders and protectors of iniquities, and all those
whom are situated to make of their tongues, a vile and ve-
nal instrument, to defend the fraud and crime of  those
who the law  of God and man, claim the frame and  hell
the soul to, by their just punishment upon earth to pre-
vent others from imitating their monstrous and ferocious
trespasses.   And  for what concern the famous  being
who has evinced a palpaple  partiality  in patronizing the
most infamous transgression against the dictate of nature,
the  circumstance  also proves to what  guilty extremity
the  fury of party, and civil and political dissention  can
carry the spirit and rage of revenge.   But, as nothing
can palliate and justify the hideous  crime in men, degra-
ding the species by deed of ingratitude, which places them
beneath the most irrational ones, and to what has report
to the guilt of ingratitude, one cannot cite,  for the  pre-
sent, in giving the record of the  most remote  antiquity,
any one of a more abominable and ferocious nature than
the abovementioned one concerning Cicero's assassina-
tion.  And as one may  suppose  that the ingratitude of
Mankind cannot be carried farther than  what has been
related of Popilius's villanous crime, and for the purpose
of proving the mistake, on that score, if not with respect 
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  tb murdering by the rage of party,but concerning the one
  of cupidity and metallic lust, one may try to determine,
  if no ungrateful trespasses committed by mankind, could
  not  outshine  the  Roman  related one, with respect to
  baseness; and  for the purpose, we have to suppose, this
  moment, that for what concern the charitable distribution,
  one day, an instance may  occur of  an individual, who
  should  make application to it, and that, as an obvious
  pattern  of human  misery, by his being overloaded with
  manifold complaints; and consequently one must suppose
  the same individual to be tormented by the acuteness of
  his various distresses,  and  exhibiting upon earth the
  most wretched  picture  of poverty, needfulness, and hu-
  man infirmity.—And on that scope,  one  must still.con-
  tinue to suppose, that in such a suffering state, the indi-
  vidual should endeavour to crawl and reach the dwelling
 of the Charitable distribution,  for the purpose of supplica-
 ting its distributor to have compassion on his complica-
 ted affliction, and on that head, like the open arm of the
 symbolical representation of charity, the door of the bene-
 volent pursuit,  in  any time, never being shut to urgent
 distress, then one may suppose that the individual cannot
 meet with disappointment in his application, and one like-
 wise  must believe, that soon the balm of hope.and com-
 fort, in such occasion, should  be cheerfully delivered to
 the distressed.  And one must continue to suppose  that
 also to  make the individual's crime of ingratitude more
 preponderent, that to operate his alleviation, in his behalf
 the miraculous  Author of Nature's  capacity should be
 conspicuously manifested by the dexterity of the remedies*
 in the individual's alteration, the assuage of his pain, the
 use of his limbs and the perfect restoration to his former
 natural faculty, and added to these the eradication of long
 standing and occult complaint.  But to make the guilt of
 the individual's ingratitude more complete, we must con-
 tinue  to suppose and add, that* after his having through
 the medium of the disinterested distributor, received for-
cible plight of the heedful, provident  heavenly Father's
goodness, by his efficacious  remedies—effectually re-
lieved of his corporeal distress, but not of the  pecuniary 
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one, and ofhis pressing, urgent want.  Then in expecta-
tion of being also alleviated of his poverty to have like-
wise determined,  if the human heart can reach such  a
pitch of baseness and ingratitude, we must always contin-
ue to  suppose that the  needy individual  most eagerly
should supplicate the one, who, by the assistance of the
heavenly  dispensation, had him  effectually  restored to
his natural healthy state,  to grant him a place, which he
should be conscious, that the advantage also soon could
effectually rescue him from his absolute indigence, and to
make the crime of the individual's ingratitude more pow-
erful, we must suppose that the one who had completely
attenuated his complicated miseries, should grant his en-
treaty, and consent to have the individual in a situation,
enabling him, like his bodily faculties, to have  repaired
his pecuniary one*—But likewise- we must suppose to
have determined, if there is any probability that ingrati-
tude in mankind  can carry  its trespasses, as far  as the
supposition can  be made;  then it must be said, that the
individual, intrusted  with  the  place which he had been
long panting after, and afterwards to testify his grateful-
ness towards the one* who through  compassion granted
him what he was so anxiozs to obtain.   But as soon as
in possession of it, one must suppose that the same indi-
vidual should be  found  enormously deviating from the
condition made to him, and not hesitating to take advant-
age of other's distress, and  expose the  honour  and  the
character  of his  liberal  benefactor,  by  his  inordinate
charge on those who should be obliged to employ him.—
And to continue the supposition of the extremity, which
ingratitude, being governed by the debasing principle of
rapacity, could lead an individual, destituted of the feel-
ing,  which nature  forcibly  evince  to have indued, even
the most ferocious of all animals, we  must say that after
having reaped the harvest of the place which compassion
had solely granted to him,  and which also  successfully
he had been relieved from pain and destitution, and need;
then we must say that the same individual indebted  to-
wards his compassionating  benefactor, of those advanta-
ges,  and beside,  that of the amount of the sale of differ- 
ioo
 ent articles entrusted to him.    And if, notwithstanding
 his  being indebted to the same, the said individual, re-
 gardless of the enormity of his trespasses, should put in
 his depraved mind, to make claim against his liberal alle-
 viator, although his having been punctually and gene-
 rously paid for whatever he  could have done, if such
 supposed  circumstance, one day, should be realized in
 the world, could it be denied, that the individual by such
 trespass, could have surpassed any  one of his predeces-
 sors  in the career of ingratitude ?  But moreover' if
 one should add to that, that the insatiable and rapacious
 individual finding that his equitable benelactor would not
 comply to his villanous demand, and not willing to  pay
 tribute to  such flagitious iniquity, and, if the same indi^
 vidual should attempt to force him  to  do it, and for  the
 purpose should not  scruple to  have recourse  to legal
 means, in  order  to constrain to have him  part  with the
 patrimonial of affliction, and to pay with it, the most no-
 torious villany, and if the^same individual to maintain his
 iniquitous  pretension, should not hesitate to have the bo-
 dy of his creditor and charitable benefactor seized,  and
 give him the alternative of either to accede to reward in-
 comparable iniquity, or to have for ultimate dwelling, the
 habitation destined to receive the unfortunate victims of
 adversity  and  also  the  one  serving for the receptacle
 of committed crimes; and consequently by these benign
 choices have reciprocated to him the  good that he  had
 done.   This supposition is made for the purpose of know-
 ing if any individual could carry the sin oi ingratitude
 further  than the supposition is made, and,  if any being
 also with the look and human shape, could be the perpe-
 trator of it, and try  likewise afterwards to have,  by all
 sorts of falsehoods, machination and invention,  apply to
 the intervention of the intended Astraas mandatories or
heir-judicial agency, and seek to have them for protectors
and accomplices,  by fraudulous scheme, and endeavour
to have them grant an iniquitious claim, which  attempt
could be made, but by inventing fictitious pretence and
iallacious titles, and likewise by blackening and calum-
niating and trying to disgrace, and perfidiously defame a 
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successful, charitable and  compassionating  benefactor.
By this supposition having related for the abhorrors of e-
normous trespasses what one may presume, they will not
think that could be performed byr mankind, and which,
if they were mistaken the atrocious deed, by them, should
be deemed to deserve the superiority of ungrateful crime
and  its perpetration worthy  of the palm, that the Roman
Cicero's  murderer could be justified to remain in posses-
sion of.  Remain now to have decided, if one has suc-
ceeded in the undertaking of successfully depicting the
crime of ungratefulness, and if one day7 such individual
should make his appearance in the world, and perform
what has been supposed,- if the civic crown of ingratitude
could not be bestowed upon  him in preference to Po-
pilius's deed, and if by such a one and guilt of ingrati-
tude, if he should not be outshined by a skillful succes-
sor.  On that score, and to have the matter fairly decided,
it may  be answered by those who are taken for a special
confident of the supposition, that by the said, the murder
of the benefactor has not been supposed to have been per-
formed.
  But  upon  that head, as  one cannot fully  predict the
whole of the guilt that can be committed by ingratitude,
but to have a correct idea of whatever may be done by it,
one is obliged again to refer to  the laconical eulogy made
by the partizan and admirer of the virtue (ingratitude is
but one crime—and that is to say, it comprehends them
all.)   Therefore from the tenor and the meaning of the
sentence, one is enabled to infer  besides, that what has
been supposed, what could an  individual do, who should
not previously scruple to murder the honour of his bene-
factor,  in assassinating his character, by publicly accus-
ing him of iniquity and falsehood, declaring his refusing
to pay  a pretended engagement.   Then to these flagrant
trespasses of inventing such a  promise marie to him to
obtain it, making use of the most infamous imposture to
have decided if there should be any accuracy in the sen-
tence, must be added the atrocity of bereaving the afflict-
ed of what has no other destination but the one to  serve
for their  relief.   And without making the enumeration 
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of the multiplied guilt that could be committed by the
individual who should come upon earth for such a pur-
pose—likewise what could be said in behalf of his own
species' exquisite virtue, if one should also make the sup-
position, that the same debased being should find among
them and his own tribes, partizans, zealous admirers, li-
beral devoted patrons, and ardent protectors, officious de-
fenders of his iniquitous claim.   On that scope, continu-
ing the supposition, if for the purpose of making the same
rapacious and ungrateful being reap the fruit of his com-
plicated trespasses,  to succeed in the attempt, and to ad-
vocate his guilt, if one was  likewise  led to suppose that
an undaunted Neophite, or a novice officious Herculean,
more intrepid and  enterprising than  his fellow-veterans,
before reaching the virile age, snould take upon himself to
gain fame and metallic specie, to undertake such a glo-
rious labour, and should also succeed  in his attempt of
conquering fruits for rapacity, and that with the arms of
a stupid and loquacious mendacity, and  obtain, with
falsehood,  rewrard for pattern of unparalleled iniquity.
But on that topic, not denyirg to carry the supposition
too far to give it the  appearance of probability, and to
make it more credible, one would be obliged to say, that
if an apprentice should give such a precluding proof of
ominous capacity, and of his verbose lying talent and insu-
perable intrepidity, by artful logic defending odious rapaci-
ty,if one had the intention to persuade that,not void of vera-
city,one day the supposition should be realized.  Then one
would be obliged to suppose also, that  for the purpose of
gaining such a meritorious victory, a young daring Achil-
les was indispensable on the occasion,  and adorned with
a splendid valorous ability, to perform the noble action.
One likewise ought to say, that, not destined to be a vul-
gar myrmidon, the  pugnacious virtue conqueror receiv-
ed suitable lesson, & to be instructed, like the antique Gre-
cian champion,the young hero,like the old one,add hisCen-
taur Chiron, which, to inculcate in him honest & righteous
inclination, Beelzebub himself took good care of his edu-
cation, and that to be invulnerable in his noble profession,
for a proper Styx; had the blood of Harpies' extraction, 
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and for the one of his tongue had  a viper's gall infusion,
to enable him to triumph & always, without opposition, in
articulating lies, stigmas, calumny, and promote defama-
tion ; &to become the audacious tutelary angel and exclu-
sive patron of fraud, spoil, iniquity, rapine, and for villa-
ny with success obtain compensation.
•  Notwithstanding, that with this new narrative  and ad-
dition, if the  whole contain of what  is said, must be
thought supposition, at least, made  at random, it evinces
that, in the art of prediction,  one has but little, or not at
all, capacity and pretension.  But in spite of what is said
which is deemed fabrication,  also improbable, if one day,
patronless, the charitable distribution should be doomed
to be spoiled in favour of infamous  action, and to a mas-
ter-piece of ungratefulness, forced to give compensation,
and consequently reward a villanous  deed  and  odious
transgression, and by that, if reality should take place, of
the fiction.   Then on  the matter, what should be the ju-
dicious observer's reflection,—and on the subject the final
idea and conclusion ; but what is to be, must be, and for-
ever shall be, and that nothing good  or bad does take place
without  some intended purposes.   And with respect to
what concerns futurity,  if what now is fictitious should
prove to be veracity, and on the score of the  feigned mas-
ter-piece, iniquity, if at some future  period, such a one ob-
tain potent partiality,  then the patronage of crime, for
friends of justice and" equity, should not be thought with-
out intent and destiny,  and  that it should serve of ever-
lasting monument, to inform posterity of human heart and
principle, former age's perversity.  But for the only sake
of those who are taken for confident of the species of for-
tune, that can be expected, and that shall be made by the
continued pursuit of giving relief to human misery, hav-
ing made romantic supposition, which by them, must be
thought to be nothing else by pure vision, real or specu-
lative, in order to prevent them  from believing that the
whole of what  has been related is destitute of founda-
tion.  To inform them of the contrary,  and that,  for
what concern the advantage, that can be expected to be
received by those, who have in their power the knowledge 
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 to be useful to the human species, concerning their mala-
 dies, one cannot consequently quit the egregious chapter;
 without having recourse to some preponderant document
 to support the assertion.   But for the purpose on the mat-
 ter, one must apply to a voracious and competent fatidic,
 or candid prophet and plain prognosticator, although this
 friendly admonition has been already quoted in the formu-
 la of prescription, but its nature is so obvious and so well
 calculated to the present circumstance, that one must be
 justified in transcribing it this moment.
   The art of curing diseases by expectoration, by Gideon
 Hervey, physician, M. D. London, 1689—page 196.*
 .  "By what unaccountable perversity in our frame does
 it appear that we set ourselves so much against any thing
 that is new ?   Can any one behold  without  scorn, such
 drones of physicians, that after the space of so many hun-
 dred years experience and practice of their predecessors,
 not one single medicine has been detected, that has the
 least force darectly to prevent, to oppose, resist and expel
 a continued fever ?  Should any, by a more sedulous ob-
 servation, pretend or make the least step towards the dis-
 covery of such remedies, their hatred and envy would
 swell against them, as a legion of Devils against  virtue ;
 the whole society would dart their malice at him, and tor-
 ture him widi all the calumnies imaginable, without strik-
 ing at any thing that should destroy him root and branch:
 For he who professes a reformer of the art of physic, must
 resolve to run the hazard of the martyrdom of his reputa-
 tion, life and estate.''
   It cannot be denied that the Brittannic physical oracle is
 clear and plausible, and also without enigma in delivering
 his  prediction to those whomsoever may be endowed of
 more capacity than the prevailing one, of those who pro.
 fess the regular practice, and consequently make no use
 of the mortiferous learning and expedient of the privi^
 leged cast, and dare to have it evinced by the giving re-

  * The readers, who are not Informed, that there were two Physicians of the
 same name, must make a distinction,  that the one from whom is taken this
quotation is not the one, who has discovered, as pretended, the glorious blood
 circulation. 
Ill
lief to those who are consumed by slow or ardent fever,
or in any occasion, if exposing themselves to alleviate the
civilized human distress, by the doing of it, they must be
prepared to encounter  all sorts of imaginable  persecu-
tion and sustain the martyrdom of their reputation,  life
and estate ?  But from the tenor of such portentous  ad-
monition based on long experience, how can any one ven-
ture to expose themselves to receive such a recompence ?
When plausibly informed of it, and consequently the  one
aware of it, whose fortitude  yielding to the  dictate of
nature and to a sentiment of natural sympathy for human
affliction, listening to no other voice, then preferring the
common interest to his own, indued with such a feeling
he must give ground to prevent surprise, if what has been
surmised with regard to the charitable  distribution,  and
the agent distributor, although delivered, as fabulous sup-
position, should be, one day, fully verified according to
the oracular prediction of the English sincere prognosti-
cator.  But on the matter leaving it to sagacious and ju-
dicious  beings  to determine, if there is not room,  al-
ready susceptible to give credit to the accuracy of the per-
tinent, physical  admonisher, and, if his assertion is cor-
roborated by  some unequivocal and palpable document
concerning the real truth of the fate, that must meet with
those, who dare to have recourse to  other expedients,
more successful than the deathful one of the regular doc-
trine, if attempting,  with them, to give relief to human
distress.   And to prove, that the sarcastical and fatidical
brother was not the only one of his own opinion, wre  ar<_
obliged to  add to his own quotation, some other also of
regular bred brethren, informing of the effect that the in-
novation of remedies does produce among the methodical
society, notwithstanding the novater's right of birth and
legal education.
  Dr. Robert James, physician of London, his defence
against the antagonist of the powder of his name, extract-
ed from his life.
  Dr. Morton, who has saved millions of lives, as James
observed, by pointing out the use of the bark, complains
of the opposition which was made to that medicine. 
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  " It is an undoubted truth," says he, " that there wer*
many villanous  slanderers,  every where,  especially in
London, who wickedly and artfully conspired to suppress
the rising reputation of the febrifuge, lest,  by  the short
method of curing fever, they should lose the opportunity
of picking the pockets of their patients.  It should seem,
as if an inventor was in  a similar situation  with the citi-
zen  of old, who could not  propound a law without an
halter about his neck, nay, indeed  in a worse situation,
as having a more certain  fire ordeal to go through, for
the law might pass and the propounder escape hanging;
but the novelist, or innovator as they call him, is sure to
be persecuted, whatever may be hit on.  But, alas! what
is matter of fact against prejudices and passion, especial-
ly when these  prejudices and passions are heightened and
inflamed by interested and self motives ?  There was vi-
olent dissention between Peripatitics and Galenists about
the Origin of the nerves—the former deducing them from
the heart, the latter from the brain.   A Galenical  anato-
mist of Venice happened to be performing a lecture
upon the subject, when a noble Peripatitic, his antago-
nist, was present, and he proceeded with more than ordi-
nary care, because he had the conviction of this Peripa-
titic particularly in view.   It dissected with accuracy its
minute part, in laying open the  root, out  of which the
nerves grow, publicly exhibited its situation in the brain,
upon which, turning to his antagonist, he asked if he was
at length convinced  that the  nerves sprung from  the
brain, and not from the heart ?  who, after  some pauses,
Tallowed indeed the fact to be so very plain and obvious,
that  he could not,  but  have acceded to it, (if Aristo-
tle had not declared to the contrary).   Another objection
to the powder, is that it is emperical—by emperical they
mean a medicine, that has been tried  or experienced, as
the word, according to its Grecian origin, imports—so
it otfght to be, else it may be good for nothing, or ever
hurtful  for any thing that is known.   But they  do not
mean this ; they mean that it is  not agreeable to regular
pharmacy ; that it is below the dignity of liberal prac-
tice ;  and that, in fact, it is not orthodox medicine : for 
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there is orthodoxy in physic, as well as  in divinity ; and
a man may be an heretic with the professors of either, if
he shall offend against their respective establishments,  by
advancing  any thing  new  or inconsistent with  them.
Let, however, what  will become of. orthodoxy, trutii in
all cases ought to  prevail; and especially, as in the pre-
sent, where the safety of lives  of men are at stake, for as
James himself writes*, " If the dignity of physic, like that of
Moloch, is supported by human sacrifice, it is the duty of
every civil society to treat both the art and the professors
alike-, and to have them extirpated from the face of the
earth."
   It cannot be denied, that those  irreverend brethren by
their former inconsiderate clamour, on that occasion* must
have given ample field  to miscreants to have illustrated the
incredible  and useful art of their con-fraternity.   But if
such is the particular  version of regular brood of the li-
cenced, graduated  and the duly educated in the liberal
science concerning the knowledge and physical utility of
pretended  lives' protractors, what then must be the opi-
nion of heretics,  and  what could they say on their egre-
gious chapter ?   And  one must inform, that it is without
hostile intention against the precious society, that one  has
made  this new quotation, which  gives only a hint of  the
fulminent exasperation of some legal, but sarcastical mem-
bers of the physical brotherhood,  the citation of their mor-
dicant declamation is  only to give a new specimen of the
reception,  which   must* expect to  meet with,  those,
who are bold enough, as to make novation of remedies  and
encroachment therewith,  of the  privileged physical cast,
making use of other means,  than their lethiferous, effectu-
al expedient.  When an insignificant powder,  as insig-
nificant in  its intrinsic properties, has caused in the con-
ereeation such a dissention and produced such a strife,
bustle  uproar, and  one must say outcry, frightened  and
scared the magic,Brittannic prolific, pharmaceutic,pyrotic,
physic metallic morbific traffic. If a futile pretendedPyntic
or fever specific have produced such contention, what then
mustbe the rage,fury,&the exacerbation of the ineffable no-
 sological, predicable congregation against arustical infidel, 
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who, - instead of making use of a frivolous powder, and
fictitious remedies,  has at his disposal  the hermetical,
philosophical mineral,  or the  scorned, scoffed, mocked
at, but the bewildering, enticing, besotting and a stumb-
ling,  precious stone,  and with it, besides, as a compa-
nion, the universal, specifical, vegetable kingdom, and that
only the knowledge of its virtue in the four parts of the
world,& their heterodoxical, illegal,despisable,natural,ver-
nacular production.  Then the daring attempt of making
use of the Father of Nature's genuine remedies which have
not the only  qualities of curing diseases,, but have also the
one of preventing them, must fetch upon the rash novator,
from all quarters, showers of anathema, the physical thun-
der-bolt of calumny, and consequently the martyrdom of
reputation, life, and estate.  But,  if experience, on that
topic, has  too long,  and too  forcibly demonstrated the
truth to prevent its being controverted, and to serve the
privileged tribe's interest protectors, as they have, for de-
fenders, innumerable proselytes, satellites, and powerful
assistants, who, like their sovereign, are  invidiously and
contumaciously averse to any novation.  Then one ought
to suppose, that the supporters and the supported, in their
privileged remedies and systematical expedient, must be
in possession of super-eminent knowledge, by the assis-
tance of which, they can be maintained  in a prosperous
situation, and that the liberal dispensator of martyrdom of
reputation, life, and estate, are themselves and  the rest of
the human species, found enjoying all the blessings of an
happy, healthy life, and one must have such opinion, when
the furious  persecutors manifest  their invincible hatred
for any new means that could be made use of, for the pur-
pose of alleviating human  misery7.   But how can any one
endowed with rational faculties, believe in the virtue of
the specific  made use of,  in modern age, which prepon-
derant efficacy,  without  repeating again  what has been
said, on their behalf, is sufficiently demonstrated by their
effects and  the prodigious bulk of human maladies, and
their continued, premature death.    Hence as the fatidical,
physical predictor, martyrdom of reputation, life and es-
tate, must be the indemnification of those, who can make 
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use of more successful expedients than the salivating pro-
cess.   And this general recompense bestowed on  the
successful,  must compel to have the belief, that for the
inhabitants  of this planet,  nothing is more pleasing for
.them than the beholding the latter age's exhibition, of hu-
man  manifold  deformities and multiplied  infirmities,
which makes of the earth, the human habitation, similar
to a universal  hospital, and which the spectacle, to the
eyes  of the spectators,  gives  a  view of excruciated and
excruciating beings,  and their torment conveys to their
cars,  the wailful sounds of their pains, groans, griefs, and
continued lamentations.   And to conclude on the baleful
matter of the human  modem age's hemisphere, it is un-
deniable,  that for the impartial observer, it is the one of
agony,  mankind's hecatomb,on which surface nothing else
can be  seen, but death,  graves, mournful raiments, va-
rious ways  of mutilation, blood spilt,  universal slaughter,
and human  destruction.
   And if the persecution and absolute extermination of
those, who  should venture to  offer relief to human pain,
must be the consequence and tlie  peculiar  reward of
 their solicitude for  their  own species,  incontrovertibly
diey demonstrate, that they find themselves happy in liv-
ing in such a propitious state, and by  their fancy they also
indicate the solidity  of  their faith, when positively  they
argue to be the strict obedient children of the Creator's
 command,  with respect to their endeavour, as ordered
them, to preserve themselves upon earth.  And on that
 score, it  cannot be  denied, that they give palpable evi-
 dence of their sincere belief and obedience to the heaven-
ly law, when those who are  enabled to amelicratc their
 situation and preserve their lives, cannot do it to any one,
without encountering the martyrdom of their reputation,
life, and estate.   By  the gratitude, they likewise manifest
their sensibility and  compassion for  themselves and oth-
ers'  distress, and obviously, in all cases, and principally
in the one of females in labour, when, rather than to have
them alleviated and delivered without pain and danger,
the\- prefer to hear their groans, screams, and shrieks, and
have those  hapless creatures  undergo-the martyrdom of 
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the Partus Ca_sarus,* than to be, by a new method, sav*.
ed from  danger, torment, and death.   And also, rather
than have their infants and dolorous progeny raised in a
vigorous state of health, without suffering and the dan-
ger of death, the compassionating beings prefer to have
those innocent creatures terminate their short career up-
on  earth, by torments, and the deathful means of igno-
rance.  And  if there is any one endowed  with know-
ledge to preserve the new comer into the world from
quitting it before the limited time, then their recompense
must be  the martyrdom of their reputation, life, and es-
tate.  And to add to the cases that can procure such a
blessing, if one was to take a full survey  of the human
manifold maladies, the attempting and the  succeeding in
their  alleviation  should  be  compensated  in the  like
manner.
  But the cases for which notwithstanding the emphatic-
al pretension of an infatuated  science, there is no effica-
cious remedy, and consequently, those who have them in
their power, deserve, if making use of them, to receive
all the anathamas of the righteous modem human race, if
the afflicted of them, to save themselves from  death,
entreat  assistance,  and,  if  those,  who  are supplica-
ted, yield on the occasion to the dictate of nature, and to
the law of the Creator,delivered in a sacred writ, namely,
to do to others as we would have been done by, and, if
they apply to be quenched of their tantalus thirst, to pre-
vent themselves from being consumated by an  intestine
fire, then it must be answered to the distressed,  you are
living under the privileged and auspicious protection of
those to whom your lives are bound, and the giving your
relief in saving your lives must expose the one who  dare
do it, to the martyrdom of his reputation, life, and estate.
2\nd  likewise in  epidemical distempers,  as the various
plague,  when it make its appearace, how can those  who
are visited by such a baneful scourge  when it  spreads
its  mortiferous standard?  be the active  persecutor of
those, who can conquer  the destroying foe, and make be-
• The cutting a child from the womb. 
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lieve in the sincerity of their concern, and sorrow, when
beholding the raging enemy, snatching out of the world,
the half of the population, and the other half afterwards
remaining infected, and prefer to have them  all perish
sooner, than  to apply,  where they could get  relief, and
also in order to prevent the  danger of contagion,  erect
stupendous  and  costly monument, and  have the one
whose knowledge and remedy could have extirpated the
scourge, in  one day,  receive for reward, if he  had dared
to prove it and to do it, to experience the martyrdom of
his reputation, life,  and estate.  Hence, if  time  has
corroborated the accuracy of the physical Brittannic ora-
cles, can it be denied that the ardent persecutors and in-
trepid calumniators of those, who can be of such a  ser-
vice  to  the  human race,  by  their deeds,   make  the
tacit avowal, that pestilences, and their destroying effects
are the predilected objects of their tender  hearts' fancy,
as well as to enjoy for them the enticing view of a uni-
versal mourning dress, and human depopulation,  and
with that, to have the one of multiplied widows &. orphans,
and the bewitching sight of hobbling invalids.  And with
this by their reluctance, opposition, and persecution of
those, who have  knowledge to prevent human maladies,
and cure them in their first stage, then they  positively
tell to those who  are deprived of  sight,  and  those who
are threatened of the danger: the beholding of  your af-
fliction, and to see  you, without being able to see those
who like us  are in possession of compassionating hearts,
is great misfortune,  but find enjoyment in your being de-
stituted of the most precious sense, that living creatures
can have upon earth, is a pleasure that  we cannot  part
with; therefore,  the  one who shall dare to give you as-
sistance, and shall  succeed in it, will receive  for reward
the martyrdom of his reputation, life, and estate.—And
also to receive  such a common  reward, largely  be-
stowed,  if any ones  are threatened of being devoured
alive, and to have their flesh eated up  by the  woful can-
cerous infection,  and to prevent  it, if the bounty  and
wisdom of the heavenly Healer, has created  efficacious
specific, in the intention of  saving mankind from perish- 
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ing by such fatal diseases.  Then the one, who has the
knowledge of the Creator's remedies, and, in those occa-
sions, dares to make use of them, and rescue those hap.
less and wretched beings, and preserve them upon earth,
and free them from the danger of  pain excru ciations,
long agony, and a slow, and one must say infernal death.
Hence, in those cases, th~ consequence  of being endow-
ed of sympathy and obedience in fulfilling the  universal
Maker's  -command,  for  the purpose  of  giving relief
to one's  fellow creatures' distress,  and applying to the
Creator's expedient, intended to help and heal those mor-
tals, then the beings  obedient to the dictate of nature,
and the  supreme   order,  must  be  compensated by
the martyrdom of reputation,  life, & estate.  And being on
the topic of estate, it must be understood, that like, if, this
moment  or at any future period, some hellish amphibious
Labrax,* cast out of the Phlegethon Styx,f or a Tartarean
metallic predacious bird, should, with the look and human
shape, have the special mission upon earth  of coming for
the express purpose of perverting and disgracing its pro-
vidential inhabitants, by obtaining from them protection,
assistance, and particular license of  extorting and depre-
dating the resources  that could help the afflicted's innu-
merable  maladies.  And on the occasion, one might have
recourse  to  the old adage, proverbially saying, " Birds
of a feather flock together,"—consequently, if the Tarta-
rean ill-boding fowl,  or the  amphibious hellish monster
Labrax or fresh river  water shark—then if the aquatic de-
vouring  beast should  succeed in making incursion upon
earth, and could be  protected by its own fellow-creatures,
patronized, and enabled with its infected rapacious, and
broad mouth, to swallow up  the portion or the  necessary
substance, and the destined one, principal and indispensa-
ble ingredient, to serve the nectar of affliction.   Then, if
such occurrence should take  place one day, it could not
be denied that the  Albion physical predictors should de-
serve  credit for accuracy  of prediction, and that those

  _. TheLatin.'broad-mouthed fisb, and fresh waller shark and monster.
  t Hells rivers. 
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 veridical  fortune-tellers have admirably and accurately
 prognosticated the species of fortune that undoubtedly
 must be made by giving relief to human pain and mise-
 ry, and that they whosoever are unable to succeed, if ex-
 posed to the broad mouth and devouring teeth of the em-
 igrated Tartarean or infernal inhabitants upon earth, must
 be prepared to  receive unavoidably for reward, martyr-
 dom of reputation, life, and estate.   Then in order more
 forcibly to inform those, who shall be the source from
 whence the predestinated fortune shall be made, to con-
 vince them, having had recourse to competent authority
 on this occasion, then the availment must prevent them
 from being surprised, if one day  the  whole  contents
 of the aforesaid prediction are fulfilled;  and consequent-
 ly, if a boisterous storm of persecution become the lot of
 the charitable distribution and the distributor, and if, after
 being spoiled, a  tragical end is the one that can crown the
 pursuit, and which in all time has been  the one that has
 generally compensated the solicitous friends of mankind,
 and the zealous  devotees of human wrelfare.   It must be
 expected, and excite no surprise, after relating in sup-
 port of it, the admonition given by the  Brittannic veri-
 dical and physical prophet, thence it is for the purpose  of
 intimating those to whom it has been related, that aware
 of the consequence, but not disheartened by the danger, &
 firm at  the post, whereupon must be performed a sacred
 obligation and an incumbent duty, that the peril that may
 be encountered by it, has nothing that can terrify the one
 who is  above  fear, worldly influence, and self-considera-
 tion.  And upon the whole, the  one who shall not regret
 to have  spent his life upon earth, if, accordiug to the fati-
 dical, nozological predictors,  it must be terminated by a
 violent death,  if it can serve only the holy cause of the
 suffering humanity, and shall by him not be regretted; but
 before sustaining the last martyrdom of the  three, or the
 deadly one, as the murder of the reputation is generally
 the preludious one that the friends of human good must
experience, we  have  to make some disquisition on the
pretext, that the active  martyrizers of reputation may
have recourse  to, to succeed in their defaming schemes. 
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And on that head, concordant in plan, as the modern tac*
tic, like the antique  one, employed by heinous  passion
and  vile interest, in  order to  disgrace any  individuals,
and offer them to the world as objects deserving con,
tempt, hatred, and detestation ;  to succeed in it, the usual
contrivance, the scheme of the detractors is to emphati-
cally  and artfully bestow upon them the surname of im-
postors.   But if this common designation must be count*
ed the least of the defaming title that can be  received by
the friend of human good, & that by the implacable enemy
of the happiness of the species, none can be offended to t&-
ceive  the  same appellation that the  Redeemer of the
world has before received upon earth.  And consequent-
ly, the partaking the same fate and title  of the Fountain
of Truth, must neither surprise nor offend any one, when
it is known that in this subverted planet, truth, by raging
deceivers themselves, has been and forever will be termed
imposture, and the veridical declarer of it distinguished by
the name of impostor. But notwithstanding that to be over-
loaded with reproaches, abuses, insult,&; persecution, must
be the particular advantage generally received by those^
whose fate in life is to occupy themselves with human
interest,  and that none are spared, and that even  the
Sovereign of the universe, and the general  Benefactor, is
not free from receiving the blasphemy of  his name and
power, and that by the pretended righteous  inhabitants
of this globe.  Hence if one cannot be offended in behold-
ing the forbearance of the Most High,  in receiving  de-
faming titles from the equitable tribe, for whom nothing
is deemed virtue, but by living upon  fraud,  rapine, and
human destruction;  and differing from  the  noble doc-
trine, must be counted  by the  professors  themselves, a
crime of the first rate.   But for the sake only of those who
are the innocent cause of  the  defamation and assassina-
tion, that the serving their interest has been  and forever
shall be exposed to encounter the devoted to  their cause,
and to prevent them from being influenced by the report
of malice and the one of  malevolent calumny, for what
concern the  honourable title of impostor, that the suc-
cess of alleviating  human misery must  unavoidably re* 
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ceive the solicitous undertaker, by the invidious and fu-
rious detractors of individuals, occupied with relieving
human distress, in order to make themselves appreciate a
little more the accuracy of the generous denominators,
they have to determine, if he gives any chance to surmise
his view, and deserve to be delivered up to the world as
impostor, the one who,  contemning  its sumptuous and
magnificent enjoyment, and to them prefers to be seclud-
ed from a busy and luxurious society, and relucting the
view of splendour, and instead of it, in silence and retire-
ment, pity the pursuers of illusory happiness, and their
needy subservients, and all the afflicted of human  mani-
fold adversity, and also pitying tiieir delusion in the wor-
ship of vanity.  If such natural inclination deserves the
tide of impostor, those who are taken for special  confi-
dent and judge, must decide, and likewise add to that as
in all time, imposture has evinced its being guided by va-
rious and inordinate lust  of ambition.   And  if this is a
truth, it must be deterriUned, if he does demonstrate to
be governed by ambitious views, the one who willingly
buries himself in solitude, in  which he finds no real
source of pleasure, but the spending his days in obscuri-
ty and earthly culture, and contemplating the starry  fir-
mament, and the  multitude of the  luminous inhabitants
scattered in the ethereal expanse, and beholding the stu-
pendous scenery with veneration and exstasy, admire the
wonder of the effulgent edifice, and the  multiplied phe-
nomena taking place  through the omnipotent pow7er, and
the sublime First Cause, Spring,  active Motor, and the
supreme and potent  Creator and  Architect of the uni-
verse.  Then if being endowed with such irresistible pro-
pensity indicate ambition, and the deeds deserve the sur-
name of impostor, those to whom the revelation is made
must determine the truth, and if what is revealed to them
is not sufficient to decide the matter, they must likewise
add  if the quitting the firmamental adoration for the ter-
restrial one, and the  exploring and discoursing with the
Father of Nature's bountiful production, and in their em-
inent virtue perceive his art, and admire his provident
.wisdom, for his  innumerable families.  Then if such 
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prevailing occupation can ajso.give ground to generous
defamers to bestow the  ipustripus, title of impostor on.
the pursuer, it is left to those to whom the information,.^
given, to conclude.   And moreover^ ifth^y fiijd groundt
that can indupe the liberal denqminators.to give their sig-
nificative distinction,  by authentically  demonstrating to
becompetentiy initiated ip, the hidden mysteries,, and^he
different  occult yirtues;of the terrestria]. kingdopa, and-its.
extensive and muhiplted productions, whien ii»genetrar
ble secret discovered, none of the human history, as. an-
tique as they mpy be, ftaye offered the  same  instance*,
And if this, complete and original, initiation by its na.
ture, indicate that, the One who received; it must be deem-,
ed.an obnoxious beings making use of deception,, ajn4"
that by  trje perspicacious and wise Owner pf thpse iin^
penetrable mysteries, thence the being intimatedwith,tfte*£
hidden, secret must lead to make the questippjjf the ubiojuk
ty, justice of the competent Instructor, can haye been mis-
taken inutile choice,or partial in choosing a beingjdeserving
by ignorance to have bestowed upon him the  surname of
impostor. And likewise to this unequivocal document,citr
ed only for the purpose.qf haying evinced the solid argu-
ment and the veracious one, made use  of by the modem
denominators, and to that must be addcd^to deserve the
dignifying title, if it must be got, by  demonstrating and by
plainly giving the testimony... of the Universal Father's
capacity, and solicitous wisdom* and by yielding  to the
afflicted's distress,  and  giving them,  relief, and rescue;.
those suffering mortals from.paiii. ajwj death,, that the ac-
tion deserves to.be d.istinguishcdrby the epithet of impos-
tor.  And besid.es,, to merit it- if it i$ by squandering life
and property in the  proceeding, and succeeding in it, that
the glorious title must be obtained.   AjidalsOj if exposing;
one's self to the danger of becoming atnQyator, in obtainT
ing ostensible success, by the effectual  help of the  omni-
fic Creator—divine, vernacular, andyutear remedies, and
more so,, if .having, but such common reppsitory to apjaly:.
tq for-specific, and making use of such Ridden si^bstanc^
the least title that one 1n.ust.b5 prepared to; receivers *fc
illustrious one of impostor.   One must likewise deserve 
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«.o have bestowed upon him, if telling that the heavenly
terrestrial properties,Jhahkiiac-  must have a  convincing
proof that the Omhi-Parent odes demonstrate tnat his in-
tention is not to have his first rational creatures perish
without any assistance upon earth.   And one must  also
receive the foil of the appellation, by telling that the j_ro-
Vidfent Creator^s genuine specifics ale of a superior quali-
ty to alleviate human infirmities, than the factitious ones,
and namely* the prevailing expedient and me extensive
one, termed  the mercurial  fcalivarious process, and the
god Mercury's communion, and its effectual Incorpora-
tion.   Then by7  the  deed the illustrious designation of
impostor Cannot be avoided, if daring to tell that also the
rjlood is the vital flame in living creatures, and that every
one of the human species  ought  to be cautious not to
|>aft with such precious liquor.  And likewise the same
bliss must be received, if without any Consideration,  das-
tardly  telling all those truths, ana by obeying in that re-
spect the law of God, prescribing to do good to one's fel-
lo<v-rii6ftals, and by yielding to the entreaty of suffering
f>eings and complying to their  demands, following the
dictate of nature, and in doing it,  wasting life  and  pro-
perty,  then by their anger and exasperation, one must in-
ter that the proceeding is unpardonable trespasses to the
eyes of those, who pretend to be the faithful believers and
the obedient sectaries of the Master of the World's in-
tention and precept.  Then one has a forcible proof of
their sincerity,  by their fulminant stigmas,  detraction,
and defamation of those who, performing their  duty to-
wards  fedd and fnari,  must be abused, ridiculed, and
scoffed by those pretended religious beings, in the  per-
formance.   It cannot be denied that the defaming title
and persecution  in fufiHing such incumbent duty,  must
be honourable to those who receive them, when acquired
in the  pursuit of giving relief to human distress. Then,
on the occasion, the appellation of impostor,  received
from those contumacious beings, ought to serve them for
looking-glasses, and by which they ought to see their im-
posture  themselves,  and  notorious hypocrisy.  But ai
exhaustlefcs in their villanous calumny, as they are fecund 
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hi Oie scurrilous  denomination, and for the purpose of
having the tmth detected, it is known that most part of
the incitement which can lead mankind to have recourse
to imposture, must be mentioned the lust of fame and the
sanguine wish of living a long while in posterity, and that
with a splendid name; and as the raging passion for feme is
not the least one that adorns the human species, and give
them the ambition of having a long life for their name after
their death. Therefore, to prevent any mistake or any in-
sinuation given by the indefatigable and prodigal lavishers
of names, to those who might be unaware of their schemes,
for the purpose it must be revealed, that the one who
may be also accused of panting after fame, and, like the
rest of mankind, of being anxious of obtaining an everlast-
ing celebrity.   On that topic, like the one of wealth and
splendour, haying no more inclination for the one than the
other—in opposition to that it must be said, that the pur-
suit and the hope of obtaining such seducing idol as to
be famous in posterity, for the generality of mankind, is
held also by the one  despising vain glory and ostentation,
as running after phantoms, and wishing to have the en-
joyment of long dreams.   But to cut short on the mat-
ter, and  to demonstrate the truth of the assertion, for the
 purpose taking a  succinct survey of the multitude of hu-
man beings, who have  spent their  lives upon  earth in
trouble,  tribulation, and hardship, in expectation of being
 honourably cited in the record of successive posterity—
to  cite die most notorious examples of human  disap-
pointment and delusion.  For the purpose, one may only
mention those Egyptians' stupendous pyramids, or stout,
 accumulated,  stony monuments, which long while have
survived the name of their fantastical masters, and the be-
 sotted mortals, authors of their erection, having expected
to  obtain for their existence a sure patent of immortality.
 By this notorious abortive expectation, one may also have
 an imperishable proof of mankind's, frantic imagination of
 acquiring  everlasting fame and immortal name.  But to
 be more convinced of the chimerical hope, if only reflect-
 irg on  the multitude of human beings, conquerors, or
 any of the human race, who have in various ways signal- 
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ized themselves upon earth, for the purpose of becoming
renowned long while after their death, surveying how far
they have succeeded, one may be informed how by their
littleness & insignjficancj7, which they are now to their pre-
sumptuous descendants, and the little notice they take of
their former existence,  by whom the  raving  after e-
ternal  fame expected to be admired and forevere xtol-
ied.    But  notwithstanding  the example of  continu-
ed experience of a forcible tenor to  instruct the strenu-
ous aspirers of successive race, praise and  veneration of
the frivolous, delusive and frantic hope, it cannot be  de-
nied that by the sedulous observers of mankind, weak-
ness, blindness of such extravagant pursuit, as the one of
expecting to become eternally famous, they7 are obliged
to confess that the variously conceited by self-merit, per-
sonal perfection,  and all those, who have the fantastical
idea of their being endow cd of superior talents and abili-
ty above any other,  have been greatly mistaken  in their
idea, when stimulated by their good qualities, and in or-
der  to inform of them, their descendants, they have
proved to be more eager  to insure to themselves a long
glorious name after their own life was over, than they did
demonstrate to have anxiety to  preserve their real  one
upon earth.  And as the infatuation of conceiting to be  ex-
traordinary  worthy of admiration after death, and that the
alluring passion has been, and is  still, the prevailing  foi-
ble of many ages, and induces the longing after immortal
fame,  to have recourse to all means by which they expect
to accomplish their desires. But as widely differing also
on that topic, from the common  rule, the digression  and
revelation was essential, in this conjuncture, if not in ex-
pectation to  persuade spite and detraction  of  the  real
tmth,  at least it must be to instruct those who are taken
for confident of the fact,  to guard  their minds against
malicious  suggestions  of  furious  wranglers  on  the
matter.    And to  them likewise, must be added,  that
the  result  of cogitation, and  a studious  experience,
the  humble  and the incapable of  being  influence^
by praise, while alive, far from having the frantic wish
and expectation of  becoming famous and applauded bj 
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posterity, at any period,  therefore the  desire by ra-
tional  beings,   and those  who  are  free  from ambi-
tion,  must be considered by them, as  having  tnC
wish,  and  as  wanting  to have  protracted  the  mar-
tyrdom of reputation, upon earth, after death.   Thence
the informing, this moment, of the persuasion that one has
with regard to everlasting fame, must prevent to have any
suspicion of renowned expectation, and also to have any
surprise if the one who has  not the least inclination for the
receiving encomium, and to become famous, neither while
living in this world norafterwarcLs,consequently cannot have
recourse to  deception upon no consideration for the  pur-
pose of being applauded or extolled.   But in opposition
to that passion, and to have corroborated the usual vera-
city of captious martyrizers of reputation on the scope ojf
celebrity, as on any other former assertion, it must be
candidly declared, that, if a great name, fame, and unpar-
ralleled renown,  present and future, and likewise, if an
unexemplified, everlasting  immortality should be offered
to be purchased bj the one^vho is so pertinaciously assert-
ed to be governed by ambitions interests, it  must be de-
clared that notwithstanding  the little value Set by the own-
er to the whole mass, if a single hair out of the head, was
the price by which the immortal celebrity wTas to be  ob-
tained, the pretended, who has fame, and contemplation,
would not even be tempted to purchase it, if it was to be
got at such a low rate.  And to conclude on this ehapter,
and the one of artifice and falsehood, and give the  last
testimony of the ground which deserves the title of im-
postor, it must likewise be  declared, that the whole bulk
of what is looked upon as  the unappreciable treasure of
the world, and also its unlimited power were to be ac-
quired at the expence of telling a single untruth, the pur-
chase should be declined  and left to the skilful artist in the
profession, who, on that occasion, only treat their neigh-
bours as themselves, and consequently, to all those, who
are pleased to rail against him and to give him the illus-
trious surname of impostor.   But before quitting the egre-
gious chapter of ambition, some explanation must be
made concerning its nature  and the species of one,  thai 
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is generally understood by the liberal bestowers of illus-
trious names, and what caa by them deserve to be
looked upon as ambition, and if it is by the eagerly evinc-
ing wishes of seeing the end ol human misery, and like-
wise the one of their manifold misfortunes, if it is by such
a ctes.re that  one must be  deemed by the  detracting
cast of being guided by ambitious intention.  On that
Head,, one cannot but give justice to their accuracy, and
that if the flaming desire is computed by the judicious be-
ings to manifest symptoms of ambition, it must be ac
knowledged, that  none,  at any time,  can have  had into.
them a stronger desire of human welfkre, and consequent-
ly have more deserved the title of ambitious, than, the one
who,, this moment is obliged to  make candidly  the sin-
cere confession of his trespasses,  and, if their nature are
declared by the friends of human adversity and miser)7, to
their victims,, thought to be a crime of the first rate ;
then one cannot help declaring  to them- to be the  most
notable criminal upon earth.  And even if this revelation
must be- the cause of experiencing more than the martyr-
dom of reputation,  life,  and estate.    Hence those, who
can be the cause of it, must be acquainted  with the real
motive, that-governs the intrepid martyrizers of human
well-wisher,  and that to  denote anxiety and compassion
to relieve the. distressed, for those,  who dare do it, put
themselves in a similar situation, as becoming an ostensi-
ble tretagonal mark, upon which every one hy calumny
and detraction seems to be authorized  to exercise their
talent; or in reality,  their being exposed to public notice
in doing, good, is the willingly to  beconv the common
plastron  inviting all the fencing scremeraand all caviling
cnampions with their engines of calumny and scurrilous
lampoons to try their ludicrous addess, and detracting
skifi and  scheme, and give them 3 chance,  remaining m
the same situation,  to continue ^ex sportive recreation
oflaunching contempt, ridicule slanders, scoff, and scorn
on the object of their sport,-<ntl110^1 destruction.   But
ifthe truth .is too palpable *"be controverted, how can the
studious, cogitators  ser»g  such a.strange fate, account
for it and not attribut ]t  to «* effect  of an insuperable 
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destin}7,  if only guided in the decision, by the striking
contrast of other beings, and when observing, that honor,
encom.Ym, and an unbounded veneration are by the gen-
erality bestowed upon the flinted heart  of the flagitious
author of human destruction, and that those who are living,
by rapine and privileged extortion, are left in peace and
plenty, arid those, who make a sacrifice  of  themselves,
their quietness and property  for the sake of human good
as the nozologic-fl brethren assert, must unavoidably meet
with the assassination of their reputation, lives, and estate.
And from this enormous disproportion  of lot can the be-
holder of  it refuse to believe in the power Of an indelible
fate by the consistent reason that the one, who wants no-
thing, wishes nothing, and likewise expects nothing but to
receive from  mankind for recompence of his unbounded
devotion,  their infection,  insult, calumny,  persecution,
ahd death.   If it wras not then Owed to fatality, the ob-
server may argue, that the man, who has, but the hope
and the inauspicious perspective of being ignOminiously
persecuted by slander and iniquitous raj acity, and to be
blasted by infamy, and have the full certitude of  termi-
nating this life by a sinister catastrophe, if there was not
fate in his life, the man, who is conscious of his danger,
should not persist to  live in  such perilous situation, and
Undergo an irksome labour, while the reward of it is  all
the calumny imaginable.   If there was no fate and ill-
stance, the man aware of the danger should retire from
human society, and should seek refuge in the uninhabited
wilderness, and  should prefer the one of the most fero-
cious animals of the forest, than to remain among the hu-
man species.  Oje must continue to argue,that if there was
no fate in the onC^ho must know the impending sinister
one that must befa^lm, to avoid  it, what then could he
apprehend worse, evd jf he was to expose himself to the
ferocious  appetite of pMacious animals, if the power of
sympathy is obliged to yiCcj to human misery's supplica-
tion, and if the doing them jq0(j js deemed bv civilized
species a capital crime, whici:must be compensated by
the martyrdom of reputation, h{e^n(j estate.  And where
else can "opprobrium  and sinister^^ persecution and 
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   spoliation, as the Britannic sincere oracles have declared,
   can be met with, but among those, who term themselves
   civilized nations, and those, for whom the human destruc-
   tion is the only wishes and study, and by whom, the most
   skilful in the destroying art, receive protection, patron-
   ization,  generous reward, and unbounded encomium.—
   For to be confirmed in the opinion, as the satirical observ-
   ers of prevailing civilized society's propense of human
   destruction & persecution & of whatever can tend to their
   preservation,—have they said with the power to do it,if any
   one should fall in the hands of the.most determined pirates,
   by profession, & if they were informed, that their captive
   could do them good, fc? could give them assistance in their
   distress, on such important matter, as the one of savingtheir
   lives & preventing them from pain & infirmities, then their
   interest have argued the Britannic satyric of human civili-
   zation, those piratical beings, not enemies of themselves,
   should not  be  induced to reward the ones, whose crimes
   should be todo good, to bereave him of what could be useful
   to them, £2? should not pay his service by all the imaginable
   calumny and the martyrdom of reputation,! ife, and estate.
   And continuing to relate the supposition made by those
   censurers of civilized nations, justice and perfection more
   so have they said, if any individual enabled of the power
   of doing good, by attenuating  and preventing  human dis-
   tress,  and if the same had the knowledge of  protracting
   lives, and with such a science, should happen to fall in the
   hands of Antropophagies, or flesh of man-eaters, if there
   are any7 such species in the world, as those antagonists of
*>   persecution have declared, knowing the power and use of
   the man who should  be in their hands, they would not
x  make a  Hecatomb of him,  and the supposed cannibals
   should not sacrifice him, and he would not among them
   run the hazard as the Britannic  prognosticators have as-
   serted, in doing good to sustain the martyrdom of his re-
   putation, life, and estate.  But after  all, if the prediction
   and the positive assertion of those censorous, veridical,
   fortune-tellers,  the same species of fortune was made on
   this occasion, and consequently, their predictions verified,
   in having asserted, that in following the pursuit of doing 
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good,  none can expect to escape the having a fatal end.
But without continuing to cite the sarcastical declaration
of those reproachers of their own  crafts, invidious  and
perfidious schemes, and the iniquitous deeds of civilized
nations,  in  predilecting and encouraging among them
►human destruction, what has been said is for the mere pur-
•pose to have decided, if there should be no fate and influ-
ence in the one, who could meet with such a destiny and
that, for the sake of doing good, and if those, who should
Teward him by the martyrdom of reputation,life,and estate,
.by the doing of it, should they not demonstrate to be ene-
mies of themselves and of their own fellow mortals, & their
being governed in their persecuting deeds, by the power
of a malignant impulsion.  But being on the topic of a
malignant guide, to prove,  that the doctrine, is neither a
novation, chimerical, superstitious one, likewise not un-
orthodoxical to any creed and faitii in support of it, and
to have the subject fully elucidated,  one might have re-
fcourse, if the circumstance could admit, to innumerable
version and  opinion, and infinite belief.  But obliged to
be brief on the subject, as the beliefs of immaterial beings*
termed,  this moment,  influence as its. date and origin in
the  earliest ages of antiquity, although under various
and different denominations^ the mentioning of it cannot
be deemed a novelty.  Therefore, previous to the making
any remarks and assertion, concerning the probability and
the effect of invisible power, it must be said, that what is,
in this occurrence, termed impulsion,  influence, invisible
intelligence, &c. was, in old time, and in the present one,
among all natious the general belief.   And what was by
the ancients called demons, geniis, &c. by the modems,
is what  is known  by  spirits of which, is said to have
good and evil ones, and consequently  the evil impulsion,
if supposed to  be  the active agent of the Devils upon
earth, if not  the true devil themselves.  From whence the
good & bad actions of mankind as said must be attributed
to those immaterial beings, and as well as all the sins and
villany committed by  the human race, and those who,
with the look and human shape, by their opposition to hu-
man welfare and good actions, & by their antipathy for all 
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diatis useful & beneficent upon earth ,thc opponent indicates
to be the passive agent upon it, & the active instruments in
the hands of the flagitious power, &the direful enemy to hu-
man happiness. But without deciding on the matter of the
invisible being not having the intention to make proselytes
and  raise  a new sect and faith,  and not wishing also on
this occasion, to convert contumacious Materalists,  only
to prevent from the being taxed of superstition, dreams,
8cvision,believing in the power of material influence,for the
purpose one must take a  succinct survey  of the  pre-
sent state of human existence, to determine to what cause
it must be ascribed.   And on that head can the impartial
investigator, as the result of his cogitation  on the tenor of
the atrocious barbarity, warfare, &c. deny that the human
species, in  latter age, gives the most ample and credible
proofs of their living and of their being insuperably guided
in their iniquitous conduct and homicide trespasses, by the
barbarous power, a malevolent influence ? Otherwise, how
could the compassionating observers account for the living
race's general prepense of committing universal ferocious
slaughter of their own species, for ambition's sake of in-
creasing despotism's strength and other  frivolous  pre-
tence.   To the same power also of an evil  influence must
be by the same observers, ascribed the prevailing rapine,
deceit, extortion, general hatred, contentious disposition,
thirst of revenge, pugnacity,  captiousness, religious and
civil dissention, the fury of party.  And likewise, to the
same preponderant power of  a malicious influence must
be  imputed the preference, tiiat suffering beings whe
having the certitude of aggravating their disorders, should
srive in applying to baneful remedies, procreator of pain &
promoter of prematured painful death. And  predilect them
rather than to apply thro' pride to those which could rescue
them from distress, save their days and preserve them upon
earth.   Also to the same potent, wicked, and invisible
impulsion,  the attentive observer should attribute, m fe-
males, the pleasure of being tortured in their labours and
to be exposed to lose their lives, tlie one of their  infants,
or to be long confined after  their travail,  rather than  to
have recourse to those  who have expedients, that could
preserve, them from pain and danger, because the observ- 
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er of mankind's extravagances, in following modes, may
excuse their folly and frivolous bodily ornament, and not
be surprised at seeing caprice of dress,  stimulated and
governed  by the  despotic power of fashion.   But on a
matter of the importance of being rescued from pain and
have life preserved, to continue to explode and contemn
the solicitous hand, that could afford preservation, must
be imputed to the suggestion of an evil misguiding spirit.
  And also to the same influence must  be  ascribed the
persecution which must meet with those who can save
the lives of mankind, and keep them free from pain, ma-
ladies, and infirmities,  and to  that preferring to scoff,
mock, cavil,  and calumniate  those who could be  their
benefactors.  Then beholding the human inclination of
hatred and contempt, and that of those who are or could
be of essential service to them, how can the observer ex-
plain the  cause of such an extraordinary7  disposition;
more so, when observing the most abject animal endow-
ed with sentiment of gratitude for the good they receive,
and their anxiety of self preservation.   Then if it was
not by the prevailing power of a deceitful & mischievous
influence, the  observer of human incoherent action with
the precept of the Creator, will say, should they be unaware
of their notorious transgression, barbarous trespasses, and
iniquitous deeds.   And to be confirmed in the opinion
of the powerful misguiding impulsion, the scrutinerof its
effect cannot believe without committing impious blasphe-
mies, that they are innated  in men, and originated with
them, as nothing but perfection and goodness can belong
to the work of the universal Maker, then there should be
the most notorious and flagitious offence, given to the
omnicient Father and Creator of all good.  If concluding
in another manner, that human multiplied crimes are not
natural and implanted in them,  thence one must be free
from impiety in attributing  them to the power of malig-
nant influence.   And to be fortified in the opinion of an
invisible and evil power, directing human understanding,
referring only to visible objects, it is an undeniable truth,
that the whole universe, to thinking and intelligent beings,
display to their astonished eyes, the most extraordinary 
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scenery, and give them the most conspicuous document
of the most convincing nature, that the terrestrial hemis-
phere,  and all the  luminous bodies and  innumera-
ble ones, dispersed in the sparkling firmament, indicate
to be contrived and destined for the purpose of  serving
for  habitation  to a superior and most perfect animal of
other creatures, and the  governour and privileged pro-
prietor of what can be upon earth.  Such is the opinion
that must have the rational beholders cogitating on  the
beautiful harmony exhibited in the universal system, and
also reflecting on the Omnipotent wisdom, goodness, and
inexhaustible and exquisite qualities, becoming the  su-
preme  Creator of  the  innumerable visible perfection,
from which his pious devotees are authorized to infer that
the animal intended to regulate and cultivate the terres-
trial hemisphere, foot-stool  of the  Most High, must be a
being that ought to be found equally perfect, happy,.en-
lightened with due knowledge, and indispensable to main-
tain him in the prosperous state of perfection, into  which
he had been fixed by his own Maker upon earth.  And
the animal must be competently instructed with learning,
susceptible also to  save  his own frame from the  being
exposed  to be attacked by deathful diseases, corporeal
infirmities, and be free from degeneracy, and with  all
those instructions thereof be  enabled to remain  in his
original situation, and exist in conformity with the rest
of the sublime creation.   This conclusion being the na-
tural one, that must make  the pious admirer of the all-
wise and incomprehensible omnipotency  with respect to
the importance of human,the rational animal. But by their
evincing to  be the reverse  of the expectation,  how  can
the admirers of the Supreme Cause of all things, source
of all consumated excellency, help attributing to the mis-
guiding  influence the surveying the |ame animal for
which the whole  nature  at large  conspire to inform the
species of their being intended to be the sovereign of the
earthly region, and as such enjoy all the prerogative  be-
longing to their  incomparable superiority, and  corres-.
ponding with the infinite wisdom  of their own Maker.
And instead of finding  the same  being endowed with 
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 bright knowledge, splendid happiness, bodily perfection*
 see the same animal exhibiting upon  earth the  most
 wretched picture, and hideous one of misery, decrepitude,
 manifold deformities, ferocity and ignorance,  while their
 having such a palpaple proof of their own Maker's partial-
 ity for the race and their intended illustrious destination.
    Hence the studious examiner of human deficiency of
 useful knowledge, and hurtful ones, is forced to attribute
 it to the  predominant power of a misguiding impulsion,
 preventing them from making use of their rational facul-:
 ties, and more so, in observing the admirable sagacity of
 the brutes,  so obviously  and  generally  manifesting
 evincing their being favoured with proper intellect, ena-
 bling them to discern in  any part of the earth, and that
 among  the  multiplied  and  multiform  productions,
 those intended to serve for the use of their own species.
 And moreover, one is obliged to believe in  invisible in-
 fluence, that serve living creation to guide the brute ani-
 mals, when before introducing their food into their bo-
 dies by their circumspection, they indicate to be perfectly
 intimated with the secret of the general Maker, £s? to know
 the occult tendency of whatever substance which they apply
 for food shall have on their system.—:And then sustaining
 a view  of such an inconceivable penetration, and witness-
 ing the human deficiency on such an important matter, if
 not attributing the cause impiously to the Author of the
 work,  then it must be ascribed to the beforementioned
 malevolent impulsion.   By  the  consistent reason that
 like the irrational animals for what only is of an injurious
 tendency into the body, men have two senses undeceiva-
 ble to  consult,  viz. the tasting  and smelling, and  that.
 the last or smelling one, is sufficient  for the brute crea-
 tures to inform them beforehand of whatever is either
 prejudicial or salubrious into  their bodies,  and also  of
 what is intended for their own use.  And on  that score
 it cannot be denied, that their utter reverse the two sen-
ses are useless to mankind in regard to the  use of their
food, w* en they scruple not to introduce into their sto-
mach, what provisionally gives them full information by
the burning their palate and scorching the instmment of 
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sneaking  or tongue, what the substance can product on
their system, if men, like the beasts, should yield to the
warning given  to them by their senses, they could make
no mistake, and be intimated before the making use of
aliments of either their pernicious or heathful tendency.
Therefore,  Upon Such an important matter the  studious
observer of mankind's indifference in declining  to make
use of the admonishers, which, for a good purpose, they
have received from wise nature, cannot be attributed to
the  bare  effect of contingency,  when experience so
powerfully does inform of the fatal consequences resulting
from their inattention.   Then the notorious contrast and
the want of penetration  in the animal giving such multi-
plied proofs of their being by the wise Maker  destined
to be the brightest ornaments of the earth, & clue to their
want of penetration and they contemning to consult the
senses which should give them warning of salubrious
foods and detrimental of ones  neglecting to consult such
deceitful  admonishers,   or to receive useful instruction
from their sense, they demonstrate to be the most misera-
ble and afflicted race'of the  whole creation.   Then to ra-
tionally surmise the cause of the human species' multi*
plied calamities,  manifold  miseries, and destitution of
means  to  allay  their distress, it must be ascribed to their
having encountered the  paternal disaftection, and to their
having provoked the anger of the  author of their  exis-
tence, and also must be attributed their hurtful prepense
and the want of his beneficent  instruction, & consequent-
ly the manifesting their  living generally and insuperably
under the counsel of malignant and misleading influence.
.   Such is the conclusion that have given or can give the
sedulous observer of the rational creatures sagacity and
human deficiency & ignorance, because, as haye said, the
feithful believers in the  ubriety of the Fountain of Light
and in  the perspicacity of the all-eyed and attentive Har-
kener,  and Beholder of the universe, then by him it can-
not be doubted that to his luminous throne the human
complicated distress,^ ignorance, as universally prevailing
among the inhabitants of this planet, is'unknown to their
common Instructor, and especially, the  misery  of  those 
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who pretend to be the most righteous beings of the earth,
and   whilst exhibiting  upon  it  the most  wretched
picture of human mortals.  And not supposing the heav-
enly Monarch  of being susceptible of wrong affection for
mankind, the first animal, in affording to the species, less
knowledge,  than even to the most abject brutes them-
selves, evince to have comparatively,  to the human one,
their not being  enabled by their emphatical science to
preserve their frames with the same success of the irrational
animal, free from infirmities, and for the purpose, depriv-
ed of beneficial impulsion.   Then by the studious be-
liever in the omni-presence of the general Inspector, the
effect must be thought by them to be the result of an im-
plicit and unalienable will and the one of the all-knowing
Dispensator of beneficial instruction.  And as a cause by
the impartial Coagitor,observing the first animal's destitu-
tion, mast be supposed  to such a fatal effect, the most
probable one, that they can give on the matter is that, re-
lying on the justice of the author of their days, without
some preponderant  reason, man, the first being, of the
terrestrial region,  should not  be  found forlorne upon
earth and chiefly occupied of their own destruction.—
Therefore from multiplied considerations, thinking beings
and silent observers of human calamity, generally have
concluded, tiiat their iniquities must be the consequence
of their sonowful deficiency,  and  consequently of their
manifesting  to live under the baneful  direction of a de-
ceitful & flagitious influence.   Hence, if the human pre-
sent  state of darkness, by the candid  beholder of latter
age's boasted virtue, is generally imputed to  the enor-
mous, progressive perversity of successive  race, and to
it, is  due, as they affirm, their destitution  of favourable
influence.   And if  such is the natural conclusion made
by impartial beings, on the cause  of the  human mind,
long tenebrose sway,  which one, by the  same, can be
made, and to which  cause could they ascribe, those who,
should prove to be the absolute reverse of the prevailing
darkness, by their evincing to be in possession of the most
important and useful knowledge, that mankind can pos-
sess,  the same judicious, must determine  also, to what 
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cause the knowledge must it be attributed, and more so,
if their precious nature and impenetrable  one plausibly
should inform that their principles are not levelled to oth-
er human beings' understanding.  And if the heavenly
disaffection for the race is conspicuously manifested by
their notorious ignorance, by the same reason  no benefi-
cent knowledge can be obtained by men, without the ta-
cit consent and assistance of the monocular Inspector and
competent Instructor.  Then, if any one should prove
by their instruction, their being proficiently initiated in
the Author of Nature's mystery, which initiation, by its
complication and deepness, could not be acquired  with-
out  an effectual and supernatural influence.   Then any
one  after having received such signalized preference,
ought  to be free from  being exposed  afterwards  to
be cavilled and censured, and receive the reproaches of
ignorant and miserable race, and by them they ought not
to be exposed to be deemed  to be worthless  objects of
contempt, hatred, and defamation.   And  on that  head,
again borrowing the veridical prognostication of the phy-
sical Britannic prophet, experience the martyrdom  of re-
putation, life, and estate.   And the appraisers of human
virtue have  said, what pretext could the spotless antago-
nist of superior learning,  and the dexterous martyrizers
of reputation, make use of, and to what detraction  could
thev have recourse, to justify their malicious aspersion,
if the one whom they should  blacken and calumniate,
could evince to  have such a pledge of the perspicacious
Heart Scrutiner's affection ?   Enabling the instructed to
read fluently in his voluminous book of nature, in the lour
parts of  the world,  while  the language of it  remains un-
intelligible to  the  rest of the human species.  And it
by  the  beneficent  instruction ?nd  initiation, not on-
ly the being enabled  to  alleviate human pain, but  to
prevent their distress and common infirmities.  And it
such a mark  of deference of the universal Institutor, and
his particular initiation are inducement, authorizing con-
summated ignorance and stupid infatuation, having no
other plight of his notice and emphatical virtues, but their
unconnuerable darkness and multiform miseries, to believe 
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 in righteousness, how could the wretched destitute,unaware
 of their abjection, take the pretext of others' knowledge, to
 give vent and try7 to satiate their thirst of calumny and lavish
 stigmas & arathemas on those who indicate to be the entire
 reverse of them, concerning the heavenly paternal instruc-
 tion ?  And if the nature of the instruction, in the inten-
 tion of the mysterious production of the Father of Nature,
 is not deemed to be the bare effect of a chance, the pretend-
 ed austere moralist conceit to be better judge &. appreciator
 of virtue than the one thry pertinently assert to be  chief re-
 warder of them, then in the juncture t'.eir candour has the
 option to declare themselves the true disbelievers of the om-
 ni-presence of the Governour ol the world, or accuse him of
 partiality. But better deciders of the moral principles of
 mankind than the Implanter himself, therefore the virtuous
 &scrupulous observers of the heavenly dogmas, have com-
 pelled the admirers of the latter age's pure, prevailing, illus-
 trious virtues, to give a candid delineation of the most no-
 torious and followed ones of modern times, and the predi-
 cable and social morality generally followed in the world.
 And on that scope, have asserted the veracious examin-
 ers and divulgers of the present existing righteousness,
 as the most notable specimen of the ruling maxims of
 faith in the heavenly commands, must be cited the use of
 the firing spirit, or the infernal hellish ones, as the firey
 antagonists  of  those benign warm liquors have violentlv
 urged,  which also they have termed  and pertinaciously
 continue to term, the satanical cordial.   But  obliged in
 this juncture to make use of the same expression employ-
 ed by the furious flamiferous opponent  of the refrigerat-
 ing liquid  of  comforts,  can any thing  they have said
 be comparable to the present predominant state of per-
 versity,  and  complicated  hypocrisy,  into  which  are
 palpably and  actually leaving the  subverted inhabitants
 of this fatal planet?   And that, by  their  being abso-
 lute1.)- guided  and duped by the artificial schemes  of
 their dominating chiefs, and  multiplied and  infatuated de-
 magogues,  who, artfully availing themselves of their
 usurpated powers to impose upon the multitude's credu-
lity,  facinating the  weak-minded of the ir subordinate 
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 slaves with fictitious morals  of their own making, and
 dazzling their eyes with external pious appcarance,and en-
 ticing their ears with the holy words, prostituted in their
 mouths, and vilified by their issuing from such impure
 and deceitful sources.  But have said in support of their
 assertion,  the modem controvertists and infidel disbe-
 lievers in the  latter  age's  virtues—by beholding piotr;
 demonstrations, they deny  the  sincerity of the heart  of
 the fervent  exhibitors,  and evince by their conduct the
 profanation of sacred things, can it be contested and have
 urged in pious miscreants, that in late time, the mouth is
 the only sanctuary into which reside the human faith and
 their general  virtue.   And to  prove it and  to have de-
 tected the clear fallacy of the pretended believers in fu-
 ture  judgment, and in the  happiness that good actions
 performed noon earth can  expect to enjoy, as the raging
 opponents of the parching liquor have spitefully declared,
 for if there was any thing like it in this world,  they have
 they  have asserted, as faith in future judgment, nothing of
 the  species  of those  conflagrating  intestine  liquidity,
 should have  been allowed to be made use of by  man-
 kind, and suffered by those who pretend to be the most
 pious and true believers in  their own Maker's precepts,
 and those who with emphasis recommend their strict ob-
 servation.   And continuing to relate the tenor of their
 objurgated  argument, for denying that there  is no real
 faith in futurity in the heart of those who  declare it, and
 avail themselves of it,—if the  belief was true,  they have
 urged, and not a fictitious one, and consequently, if those
 who assert to be the tme followers of the immortality  of
 the soul's doctrine, and also of the one of its answering
 for the trespasses of the body,  then the pretended true
 believers in  the creed should manifest it by their appre-
 hension  of receiving a fatal doom, after  having quitted
 the carnal receptacle of living souls;  and with regard to
the diabolical spirit, should  be afraid  of the consequence
of having served, directly or indirectly, in the consump-
 tion, use, and  fabrication of the delectable nectar of the
 Tartarean inhabitants, and consequently for the  deed they
should be in dread to encounter the disgrace and fatal 
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judgment of the uncontrolablc Judge of human actions.
And for what  concerns the responsibility  of the hell-
ish tantalous  beverage thereof,  some  enquiry  should
have  been made  before  its introduction among those
refined,  moral,  civilized tribes, and   those  making
a  pompous show of  their superior faith and  virtue,
and  by  those  who  have hope  of a reward for their
practice  of good  actions.   Concerning those firing li-
quids, if not having been effectually  blinded bvtlie hell-
ish sovereign, of whom the guiltiferous liquor so forcibly
&. powerfully serves the most important interest, & con-
scious of the truth, some seriows discussion should have
been  made previous to the general use,  for the  purpose
of knowing upon whom should be laid the trespasses of
the toleration of the crime, promoting essential spirit by
the supreme human souls' Judicature. For as the virulent
life-liqttid  antagonist  of  the  human  beings'  burning
flame's Embrosise, have argued, as the fabrication must
be compared to a fertile nursery, or to a fecund mint,
coining the most capital crimes to be put afterwards in
circulation ; but, to have  decided the question of their
respective answcrableness, supposing, for instance,  that
an inordinate drunkard's soul, after having quitted its sur-
feited and  permanently intoxicated and inflamed frame,
for the immortal region, and to receive  the reward of it-j
former habitation, for the meritorious deeds that its un-
temporated body  had performed upon earth.   And if
have  said the  irreconcilable enemies of the human rea-
son drink, effectual  destroyer, and  potential antidote—
thence for the purpose, supposing the said soul of the in-
ordinate drunkard at the bar of the  heavenly Throne of
.ius;icc, and also of souls' inspection and final compensa-
tion, and there the said drunkard's immaterial and  im-
mortal remains or soul there  interrogated by the grand
Judge of the celestial  and eternal Court of human per-
formance and recompense,  concerning the species of one
that she  come to claim for  the multiplicity and enormity
of crimes that her  noxious body had committed, while
drowned in the infamous spirit of sins and intoxication.
Arid as they have  ^a::! to  the per ^ieaeinus Heart Seru- 
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  tiner of the world, none can pretend to dissemble and de-
  ny the truth, then what could answer to the awful angry
  Judge, the justly frightened and terrified soul, or the sur-
  viving and incorruptible partner of her former stupified
  and degraded body, and when hearing the recital  of the
  enormous catalogue,  detecting and ennumerating  the
  complicated mass of crimes  committed by her material
,  and corruptible devilish-like  living  angel.  And namely,
  as  have mentioned the veridical supposers,  in  giving
  a brief narrative of the deed of drunkenness, must be cit-
  ed the starving  families for  the purpose of feeding and
  saturating intemperance, and by that committing suicide,
  or  the self-murder of soul and body.   And also must be
  added the giving to  progeny the hideous spectacle and
  disgusting example to imitate, which  consequence is to
  excite contempt, instead of veneration, which children
  are in duty bound to  have for the author of their days.
  Then the ill and unjust treatment  of them and consort,
  and their needfulness, cottage laziness, sickness, poverty,
  tortures, nakedness, debts, and general destitution. Such
  is the compendium  of the homely  succinct picture, that
  the mordicant  enemy of the stupifying and vilifying
  drink,have given with regard to the drunkard's habitation,
  and for what  concerns the one that can be given of the
  repugnant out-exhibition, must be related the captiously
  insulting, railing, quarrelling with the  peaceable citizen,
  and the irresistible pugnacity, or  insatiable thirst of hu-
  man  assassination, boxing, fightinjr, v.r.d robbery, depre-
  dation, and the committing incendiary, and  extortion,
  &c.   Thus is the abridgement that the pertinacious foes
  of  the arch-angel's  furiferou:. spirit  have s^iven  cf the
  beastifving intoxication.   And they have added to those
  meritorious exploits,  swearing,  cursing, blaspheming,
  vociferating and  abominably  imprecating against God
  and man, and that in the most frantic and horrid manner.
  And besides this description of the crapulous heroes of
  surfeit, they have added, that in their orgies they give to
  the beholding Creator of the  species, the most loathsome
  and villanous view of his superior  animal, debasing and
  d' jading themselves, and noxiously becoming the most 
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despisable being upon earth.   Such is the last and brief
narrative that the partial admirers of modern incomparable
morality have candidly given conceming the most notable
principal trespasses that are commonly performed by the
fervent  followers of ebrosity  & the predicable prowess,
operated by the assistance of the satanical spirit, prolific
fabric, giving obvious specimen of the latter age's virtue,
and its  specific  characteristic.  And to the natural  de-
leniation, that the  implacable  enemies of the ignipotent
liquor have given of its ineffable exploits, hey thave said
that their detection was to give a correct but brief com-
pendium of the eminent  boasted remarkable virtue, as
strictly practised by the scrupulous inhabitants of this pla-
net, and to have specious and palpable hint of their  faith in
futurity, and the one of their having in  them an immor-
tal soul, exposed to  receive reward and punishment.
And  to evince the solidity of their belief, have continued
the raging  antagonists of the hellish holy spirit, after the
multiplicity and enormity of trespasses committed by the
corporeal companion of intemperance, what then the spirit-
ual remains of the drunkard could give to the soul's judi-
cious Compensator for their  vindication, and in the  be-
half of the  material diseased being or drunkard, in which
she had a temporary residence, alter the  exposure and re-
citation of  the abovementioned and enumerated crimes.
On that scope, inferring  of the probability  of the means
of defence  left to the immaterial convict, and which one,
they  have  said, could she make  use of for her justifica-
tion,  and what answer, one must suppose, could she give
to the heavenly tribunal, and the luminous Interrogator, if
not the following probable one, that, alas  ! doomed guilty,
and her former surfeited body should not have been ex- >
posed to commit such complication of crimes upon earth
while alive, if the crimeferous liquid had not been fabri-
cated, retailed, and distributed, and not  forbidden, by ei-
ther temporal or spiritual soul's rcgulators,themselves not
averse to cool their material  system with the refrigerant
drink. Andtothisingeniousjustincation,g:veu in behalf of
the material drunkard's life wasting remains—hence,v hat
could be replied by the true Fountain of Justice and Mer- 
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 cy, is not what the fertile supposers have said of the hea-
 venly interrogation.  But on the matter,  if not having
 themselves given any definitive solution, and having con-
 tinued tiieir  prolific supposition, they have said that if
 at the moment that the vindication is made, there should
 happen to  have  also  at the the divine  Brazen Bar,  the
 incorporeal  consociate or soul of those  liquid-crime-
 propagators, and after their  having heard the recitation
 of  the enormous trespasses resulting from the labour of
 their departed temporary partners, and also being ques-
 tioned on the business, and  if the. abettors of such mul-
 tiplied crimes, as those that had been related, ought  not
 to be deemed more guilty than the perpetrators them-
 selves, by their having fabricated and put into  their hands
 such atrocious instruments,  original cause  of their tres-
 passes, and if the punishment that they equitably deserve,
 should not be more properly inflicted on the  cupid and
 profligate souls of bodies, that have been the  active au-
 tiiors of such multiplied  iniquitous deeds.  And to this
 judicious question and definition, given by the chief Le-
 gislator of the universe, permanently presiding on his lu-
 minous Throne of the immense Court of  the world,—
 thence  what  could also  answer the rapacious and  in-
 satiable  metallic  substance's idolizers,  and  the  soul's
 and body's direful actual  destroyers.  Then, they  have
 said,  what  substantial  reason  could they give to jus-
 tify and palliate their sordid inordinate  cupidity, when,
 by  the  impartial  soul's  Rewarder,  they  are  found  to
 deserve  the  capital punishment of  crimes, committed
 by their  lucrative and  destructive former venal  com-
 panion's deathful  soul's and body's profession ?   And
 have  continued to suppose the fiery7 advocates of the
 benign soul's and body's blasting liquor, seeing their im-
 pending danger, those reprobated souls, and their being
 on the eve  of answering for all the trespasses committed
by the patibinary traffic of their former temporary habita-
 tion,—thence to  save themselves from  their fatal doom,
what  could they urge in advocation, and to shield them-
selves from the portentous consequence resulting from the
monstrosity of the prolific iniquitous fabric?  But, alas ! 
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 also their former  carnal, venal, peccable, and  terrestria.
 reccptaale should not have been liable to contribute to the
 propagation of crimes upon earth, or their co-partner had
 not been duly and legally authorized in the direfid fabri-
 cation, by the established privileged authority,  and those
 asserting themselves to be the heavenly appointed and the
 chosen one, intended to regulate human action, and con-
 sequently being, as they have declared & generally declare
 the particular agency & the symbolical & typical represent-
 ation in power & infallibility, & justice of the sovereign of
 the world upon earth.  And to this also candid vindication
 of the human rapacious and depredacious soul's and bo-
 dy's effectual and active destroyers, given  to  the angry
 Creator of the  species, and the universal  Judge of their
 actions, what could the celestial Judicature conclude on
 the matter ?  Bu. on that head, the exhaustless supposers
 likewise not having asserted, they have said, that if at the
 moment that the vindication was given, also some souls of
 those  typical and  celestial representations upon earth
 were present at the heavenly inquest, and if some of those
 righteous, judicious, and scrupulous goverrtours of hu-
 man action, after their having been auditors and auricu-
 lar witnesses of the sovereign Legislator's interrogation,
 from whom they had been as positively by  them assert-
 ed, to have been the  delegated mandatories for the pur-
 pose of their being the tender  fathers of human  prosperi-
 ty, preservation, and happiness ; and also coming for the
 express purpose of claiming  and of receiving the gene-
 rous  reward due  to  their glorious  and meritorious ac-
 tions, bestowed by the liberal Dispensator.   Then which
 one, they have said, that also those honourable souls could
 claim  from  the prodigal eternal Compensator, for their
 signalized services, and for the generous zealous protec-
 tion, and bountiful patronization, that those elevated souls
 and the imperishable fragments have given to the hellish
 Embrosia. or the satanical spirit.  And as also, on this
 matter, the  exhaustless supposers had been silent  with
respect to the answer that could be given by the judicious
apprcciators of  those  dignified emblems of his paternal
authority upon earth ;  confessing their incompetency, the 
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   veracious  supposers have  declared  their  incapacity of
   finding susceptible expression for the purpose of giving
   a correct idea of the impression, that those illustrious and
   virtuous terrestrial mandatories can make on the Master
   of their delegation.   But'on that scope, have said the dif-
   fident of language  to express the one that can be made
   use  of,  in  the  juncture, by the sovereign Judge of all
   those pretended, supreme, judicious judges of virtue, if one
   cannot find suitable words for the purpose of inferring the
   tenor of reception given to those soul's grandees' exquisite
   principles for the eminent benefit that they  have been to
   the human race, as the sincere supposers have said, one
   cannot be at a loss, in inferring of their receiving  an equi-
   valent reward to their commendable deeds, from  the judi-
   cious munificent Compensator, only if it was for what con-
   cerns the strenuous and zealous protection,  that their
   carnal consociate  munificently and liberally give to  the
   arch-angelical hellish Embrosiae.  Therefore the invete-
   rated enemies of the innocent demon's benign spirit have
   supposed, that the sovereign bestowers,  in consideration
   of the important service that his faithful agents, owners of
   the souls claiming their rewrards, and for the advantage  that
   they have been to the master oftheTartarean region,by their
   special Stpartial protection given to the sin's pernicious pro-
   moting essential liquor.  Then those happy resorts, by the
   generous supposers, are suposed to be the last  habitation,or
   the  Elysian fields, that commonly receive for judicious
   compensation, the sensible zealots and scrupulous souls,
   for their  partner, notable, laudable, and infallible action,
   and their license given to the furiferous spirit and patron-
   ization, and that to give them chance to admire the grace
   of their dispensation, and to receive the thanks of the  nu-
   merous happy population, that the prosperous Tartarous
   kingdom enjoys by their protection. But afterwards,
   having been serious on the matter, and the raging, thun-
   dering, exacerbating antagonists of the hellish being's es-
   sential spirit have said, afraid of the consequence of a fu-
   ture  judgment, if there was any thing like such a belief
   in  the hearts of  those  who  emphatically call  them-
•  selves regulators  of  human  conduct,  should  not 
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 any of  those  infallible  beings,  long  ago  have  de-
 monstated their apprehension of responsibility, in tolerat-
 ing and encouraging the use and fabric of a liquid, which
 has no other property but the one of promoting in man-
 kind crimes, distress,  and  misery, and  with it also, the
 one of degrading, degenerating, and depopulating this fa-
 tal planet, of its indispensable inhabitants, and  increase
 their hapless state of wretchedness.  And more so, a se-
 rious inquest should have been made, when so bombas-
 tically those privileged human beings pretend to believe,
 or make believe, that they are guided in  their laws by
 the sole motive of promoting morality,  and protect the
 soul and body  of the species, and  to be the eager zealots
 of human extensive population.  But the fulminent ad-
 versaries of the tantalous drink have said, this inconsist-
 ency of declaration and action is the  most convincing
 proof that the reverse must be always taken of the civil-
 ized assertion,  and that the  names of virtue are only for
 them conventional  words and political device, made use
 of according to the circumstance and to the want of those
 which serve  their interest, and are in their hands and in.
 the one of malice and insidious views, for the purpose of
 vilifying and disgracing those whom detraction wants to
 have chance to make obnoxious and to have exprobated.
 But returning to the prevailing faith in future judgment,
 the disbeliever's  controvertists and deniers of  civilized
 belief have said, their general action forcibly demonstrat-
 ing that the creed is useful only to the governing dema-
 gogues, and in  which none but few indicate their sincere
 belief, and the  inexorable adversaries of the drink have
 continued to say, if there was any reality in the faith of
 those who pretend to be the protectors of mankind, con-
 templating the  sinister result of the quintessential liquor,
 effectual promoter of crimes, no civilized nation  should
 have permitted its  baleful fabrication, and  that when so
 often the  pretended civilized nations have made,  under
 frivolous and insidious pretext, stupendous coalision for
 the purpose  of destroy ing the inhabitants of this globe.
 by them one at  least might have been made for their pre-
servation.   And if their rulers were not altogether guid- 
147
ed by the destructive prepense, they  have said, and if
in their heart there was any thing like* belief and the prin-
ciple of virtue, and  faith in futurity,  and the. immortality
of the soul, by the assenters' conscience, should they ev-
er permit the use of a drink  and its fabrication, whilst
known  to them,  that  it has  an  active fecundity in
promoting crimes, human degeneracy, and loathsome de-
predation, and should not a convention have  been made
by  those human rulers, to extirpate conjointly the de-
stroying liquid, from whence a mortal spring overflows
mankind with a torrent of iniquity, misery, and devasta-
tion.   But the  furious antagonists of human complacen-
cy of those austere  virtue's governours, and  infatuated
tutelary patrons, have said, far from being averse to such
lamentable effects, they indicate that nothing can please
them but  human destruction.  And if those reverated
iiuman demagogues, the pretended image of the divinity
upon earth, had themselves the least faith in futurity, and
in their  answering  for human trespasses and their own,
should they be the harbinger of  rapine, robbery, menda-
city, and have for trade blood-spilt pugnacity and human
slaughter, the peculiar characteristic of modern age. And
likewise if those human  guiders themselves, and the  ge-
nerality of the human race, were existing in the persua-
sion of a future judgment, as  liave argued  the exhaust-
less controvertists of human sincerity, in expecting a fu-
ture state, and in believing in the reality and in the omni-
presence of  their own Maker, the Creator and  Inspec-
tor of the world ; for besides the hellish spirit fabric, pro-
moting welfare, if the inhabitants of  this globe were sin-
cerely impressed with  the sentiment of the ubiquity of
the Master of the universe, how should any one of them
attempt to  raise  temples to glorify the Most High, and
that  with  the  lucrative scheme  of  gambling expedi-
ents, bv which the credulous  needies are  learned in the
practice and in the  one of deceit, and ensnared, entic-
ed   and inured .in  the means of making fraudulent
<rain, and  robbed by themselves through temptation,
and  defraud  their family of their daily elementary suste-
nance—Under the frantic expectation of getting fortune. 
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And if have said the gambling antagonists of Synagogue,
owing their existence to profit, resulting from hazard-
ous  scheme, and  speculation built with its profit such
monuments have they urged, ought to bear the name of
exambium, or resort of traffic and to be dedicated to the
god Mercury himself, or to the divine Furina, his kin-
dred consort, and  serve of rendezvous to lucrative pur-
suit, and not to insult and prostitute into them the  name
of the Most High and  mighty, just, and the universal
Creator of all things, and the source of virtue and equity.
Then by this deed the bitter disbelievers in some of thosels-
raelites' faith, who scruple  not to  speculate upon every
thing,have taken the pretext of their making legal profit on
their pious edifice,& have exclaimed against the covetous
perverters,  and their  rapacious furacious defrauders of
public morality and of metallic specie they have asserted,
that the toleration of such enormous profanation demon-
strate'that there  is very little faith and sincerity in the
heart of those Inhabitants  of this planet erecting  syna-
gogue by mendacity, fraud and spoliation because they
have said, if the pretended devotees of synagogues, w7hicn
foundations were laid down.by the profits, made by gain,
pursuit, and the advantage taken of the  credulous" mind,
and by their delusion and the fruit of spoil and distress.
If the speculating metallic worshippers  were in the per-
suation, that they are worshipping a God of justice and
honesty, they  should have the faith also that his predi-
Iccted temples, being in pure and honest human  heart,
he should not take monument of profligateness, for spe-
cial sanctuary, and, if the external pious devotees were
in the sincere belief, that they are paying homage to  the
permanent omnipresent divinity, whom, in the most mi-
nute part,  is scrutinizing human action, having the  be-
lief they should manifest then their dread and faith by
their not venturing themselves to remain in synagogues,
elevated by the bereaving of their food, wretched,  delu-
ded beings in the apprehension that, one day,  the true
God of the Universe, tired of beholding and hearing the
ueormous  insult, prostitution and blasphemy, wantonly
offeredto his august name in covetous,  rapacious, avr.ri. 
149
 cions synagogues, and for fear that the impious and frau-
 dulent sounds,of shattering prcfanation,staggering the pol-
 luted vault,finally may also one day give way & serve of last
 cap to the deceived & deceiving fanatic sectaries of pride
 deceit, and infatuation.-—But unabled, and also not wil-
 ling, for the present, to continue to give the endless argu-
 ments made use of by the furious disbelievers of the in-
 habitants of this planet sincere faith in the immortality
 of the soul, and future judgment, and their punishment of
 crimes.   Nay  one cannot quit this prolific chapter with-
 out giving  the last conclusion of the particular faith of
 those wagers,  controvert  its concerning the latter age's
 beliefs and  virtue, moral and honest principle.  And on
 that head they  have said that generally they are but emp-
 ty words, now void of sense, and of their real and original
 signification, and also speculative tenets, solely preserved
 by deceit, and  made use of by its agency, in Order to en-
 snare the credulous and serve of instruments, proper to
 exterminate the enemies of fraud, iniquity and collusion,
 and all  those which malice destine  to have exprobated
 and annihilated. And besides they have said that as to what
 concerns the  human race's meritorious prevailing prin-
 ciples, if not entirely blinded by their fictitious and right-
 eous appearance, & absolutely fascinated by a superficial
 & artificial nature, then void of prevention, on the matter,
 8c beholding themselves and their complicated state of cor-
 poreal wretchedness, their mental and bodily unnatural de-
 formity, and their manifold prevailing general calamities.
 Therefore,  the result of their  impartial inspection, con-
 cious of their own imperfection, have said their frank ap-
 preciators, without presumption, if every one should take
 a succinct survey of their own defects, far from believing
in their own moral qualities, cavilling, contesting and con-
troverting the one of others,  aware  of their multiplied
transgressions,  the only sight of them ought to make the
candid examiners sink under their ponderous power, and
in contrition, and fervently for themselves, only implore
the paternal clemency, give thanks to its forbearance, and
for past and present iniquity from the heavenly throne, in-
voke the grare of divine mercy.   Thence such is the las* 
150
conclusion, that have given the  pertinent apprcciators Of
modern age's faith,  physical and moral, and theological
exemplary virtue, and depicted by the furious antagonists
of the satanical cordial, and the  violent adversaries of lu-
crative  pursuit,  and the  ones of the laudable gain made
by the gambling synagogue's erection.   But,  in  this oc-
casion,  with those,  who are taken for special confidents
of their sarcastical  declaration, if found  by them to have
been too prolix, tedious, and exalted only by their having
made use of their literal expression to them,  it must be
revealed that it is only in the simple view,  and also, pure
intention of being supported in the assertion of latter age's
exquisite, scrupulous virtue, and perfection, and for the
mere sake of having substantial  reason to give of the pal-
pable effects, evincing plausibly, by multiplied  and irrefu-
table documents, that the  human race are insuperably liv-
ing under  the malicous power  of a flagitious and mis-
guiding influence.  And it is, likewise, to give chance to
conclude on the strange toleration and unaccountable con-
descention of the pretended, rigid casuist and the strict
conscientious,  and  the austere, religious moralist, whilst
they  find no fault done  by human universal devastation,
spoliation,intoxication,the inward frame conflagration,hor-
rid intemperance, debasencss, and corporeal degeneracy.
But without dwelling any longer on the baleful chapter of
mankind's potent mind infirmities, afttiction, and sorrow-
ful adversity, one is forced, from the tenor of their multi-
plied cogencies, to persist in the belief, that the comple-
tion of them no more than the cause, cannot be attributed
to the bare effect of contingency, yielding to the" numer-
ous and persuasive arguments which arc all of nature, to
maintain the studious observers in the conviction,  that  ,
with respect to virtue,  as well as other instructions, the
human race is guided upon earth by the deceiving power
of a misguiding and flagitious  impulsion.  And to be
strengthened in the  persuasion it is an  irrefragable truth,
that the whole universe conspires, in giving  innumerable
proofs of the contrast that the inhabitants of this planet
forcibly evince to be with  the rest of the Creator's per-
fections, and for what concerns  only the visible, material 
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 system, and the one of other animals creation.   And to
 remain in the same opinion and have it corroborated, one
 has to cast the  eyes, as far as they can reach, to see the
 whole world displaying to this naked sense of rational be-
 ings, the wonderful, numerous phenomena, informing the
 intelligent spectator of the unbounded power of their own
 Maker and first.mover of all tilings.   And  for  the pur-
 pose of making use of their intellectual faculties, to take
 survey of the perceptible, material objects, ostensibly of-
 fered to their discerning eyes, enabling them to contem-
 plate those infinite and  numberless luminous bodies,  or
 the firmamental, orbicular population, so admirably dis-
 persed in the resplendent, & magnificent ethereal expanse,
 and the respective motion of those sparkling stupendous,
 suspended inhabitants.   Hence result  of the pious con-
 templation can  any thinking beings not be converted, of
 the Atheists monstrous doctrine,  and not be persuaded
 that those incomprehensible  wonders are the absolute ef-
 fect of an unexplainable,  powerful, and knowing cause,
 and that  what  is left to human understanding,  to  infer
 on the matter, is,  that the splendid bright space,  is
 repleted with solid and  innumerable mass, or terrestrial
 and material vegetative orbs, which symmetry and sub-
 lime  composure demonstrate that their surface must be
 the particular habitation of human, rational animals.   And
 if such is the reflection, that beings endued with intellec-
 tual and cogitating faculties, can make widi regard to the-
 starry, firmamental  economy, that every thing indicates,
 that each of those dazzling illuminated bodies are the ab-
 solute residence of human living animals.   By the impor-
 tance of the work, the cogitators have solid argumen ts to
 infer that  the species, for which so much is done, must be
 replenished with exquisite perfection,  corresponding to.
 the consequence of  the being and the  supreme excellen-
 cy of the omnicient, wise and good Author of all things.
 This solution being the last one, that have made the god-
ly and the impressed, with sentiments of veneration for the
worshipful wisdom of the supreme omnific Creator of the
world.  Thence beholding the conspicuous state of va-
rious deformities, multiplied infirmities, manifold mala- 
155
dies, and the obvious utter destitution of means of relief
of the distressed inhabitants of this  planet, how can then
the studious beholders help thinking that theeraCe' have
encountered the heavenly disgrace, and that they have de-
served the capital punishment of being governed by the
direful power of malevolent influence.  Because the sin-
cere believers in the ubiquity of the fountain of justice and
goodness, are obliged to believe that a potent cause must
be supposed, or the human species should not, so forcibly7,
evince their being deprived of the  Creator's protection
and tutelary impulsion.  And to the deficiency, must be
attributed all their fatal misfortunes, and  the one, instead
of inhabiting the  region  ofharmony, peace, and felicity,
their being situated in a distressing one, and insuperably'
entangled in the one of Chaos, and struggling against ma-
lignity, hatred, and revenge, and to be plunged besides in
misery, pain, and death, and have for general feast, funeral
entertainments, mournful raiments, bacchanalian, and gal-
lows exhibitions, human slaughter &. sacrifice, warfare's ne-
farious spectacles, & themselves predilected the view of de-
struction, & to live by deceit, blood-shed, & general con-
fusion.   Such is the compendium of the happiness of life
of the inhabitants of this planet, the  characteristic of mo-
dern age, as delineated by impartial  beholders, and tliose
inferring from  the complicated state of calamity  of the
human race that they7 have deserved the Creator of the
world's disaffection  and provocated the celestial  WTath
and chastisement.   Therefore, to  recover  the paternal
auspicious bounty and salutary impulsion, henceforth, by
the help of the eternal Father's mercy, and beneficent  as-
sistance may the human species be soon enabled to extri-
cate themselves from the abyss of misery, gulf of blood,  ,
and perverseness,into which they have been immerged for
so many ages.  And for the purpose anxious of a better
fete, may the well-wishers of their own species in this
world be re-united in desires and entreaty, and petition the
heavenly Throne of mere}- and goodness, to have be-
stowed upon them, beneficent instructions, and may7 they
effectually succeed   in pacifying  the Almighty  Sove-
reign of the Universe.  And may they obtain his resist* 
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 less intervention to  be rescued from the hands  of their
 enemies, and by his invincible power may they  be ena-
 bled to deliver themselves from  the ruling domination of
 malicious,  ferocious, and  merciless influence.  And
 may its  perfidious agency, and  its passive instruments,
 the  flagitious  opponents of human welfare, at  the ex-
 hausted  final hours  of their long  calamitous days,  for
 last punishment upon earth,  may they  see the  downfal
 of their  tormenting, bloody throne.   And may their tu-
 telary elected successors, on its purified ashes, raise up
 an eternal one of human righteousness and unbounded
 happiness, and may  such rapturing sight for the good
 inflaming  the  raging eyes of  the  enemies of human
 prosperity,  for last view in this wOrld, see the twilight,
 and  the  most,  auspicious  dawn  of  the  perpetual,
 and  long panted after, benign  light, kindling  the fire
 of the  everlasting  day's promoter   of  exhaustless  fe-
 licity,  and the tremendous one ol wickedness and igno-
 rance, pain and death, foretokening the end of human ad-
 versity, and complicated misery, and the total overthrow
 of the reign of  wicked ages, and the Aurora  of the
 one, solemnly  and   universally  proclaiming their end,
 and  the  gorgeous triumph of the long hapless inhabit-
 ants  of this  ill-fated  planet, in their  having  succeeded
 gloriously to obtain the august Father's heavenly cle-
 mency,  and that by it, henceforth  and forevermore,
 may be granted to receive the  blessed favour and love
 of the Most High and Mighty One,  and renovated, re-
generated, and purified by his revivifying bliss, to the
utmost perpetuity, be protected and  enjoy his paternal
love, knowledge, and impulsion, and the  expurgatory
grace of his Holy Spirit.
AMEN. 
                  NOTIFICATION.
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the second  part, when printed.  And  with respect to a list of
the writer, which may be thought necessary, on account of the
numerous faults and multiplied mistakes, that the peruser maj
have found, due to the little time, and chance  to survey and
prevent them  in  the impression.   Cfei  that score, the  readers
must be candidly advised, to refer upon the whole contents of
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