e; so that, in this respect too, all thingsРare in a manner equal; not but that there are other rules concerning theРduration of the first age of life, and the number of the young of man andРother animals, but they do not belong to my subject. With old men, who stirРand perspire but little, the demand for food diminishes with their abilities toРprovide it; and as a savage life would exempt them from the gout and theРrheumatism, and old age is of all ills that which human assistance is leastРcapable of alleviating, they would at last go off, without its being perceivedРby others that they ceased to exist, and almost without perceiving itРthemselves.РIn regard to sickness, I shall not repeat the vain and false declamationsРmade use of to discredit medicine by most men, while they enjoy their