The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires by John Frederick Helvetius
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to their Pristine state of Health,
or to a better than the Pristine. For indeed, various and diverse kinds of Salts, are generated in the Glandules and Lymphatick Vessels, after the putrefaction of this, or that nutriment taken, which afterward wax florid in various Humours, for diverse Diseases, either Internal, or External. Experience teacheth, that as many as are the Constitutions, or Complexions of humane bodies, to so many diversities of Diseases the same are obnoxious; although in one manner, and the same Disease, as our daily conversation evidenceth to us in those who drink Wine, whence divers Operations manifestly discover themselves. Because Peter drinks Wine, he labours with an angry, I will not say, furious mind. On the contrary, Paul drinking Wine, seems to imbibe his mind with an Agnine Timorousness. |
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