Healthful old age is the most valuable period of human life: Experience has rendered the antient more able than those who have seen less, and felt less, to conduct themselves, and their descendants: and being freed from the empire of the passions, they enjoy quiet. Philosophy pretends to this condition; but age gives it truly: Whatever our heirs may think, it is worth preserving; and in that sense I write the present Treatise.…
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