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To the Reader.
nels ; the caffe Refule of each Man's Expe¬
rience, as well as the Induction of the fol.
lowing Particulars, which abundantly convince,
that alway Anxiety and Forecaft, and not
feldom Difcontent and Regret, being Hand¬
“maids to the Wife, while an immovable Com¬
placency is a conffant Gueft 10 rhe Fool, this
laft is as much more bappy as be is leſs barrafs"d,
left perplex’d, lefs follicitons than the other.
Befide,if (what was formerly probable, and is of
late ingenioufly attempted to be improved to an
bigher Degree of Credibility,) a Reality of Hap¬
pinefs during the Conceit equally reſults fron
an Imaginary, 45 4 Real, Objet, and
whats Aiery and Phbantaffick in the Appre¬
henfion, may be Firm and Solid an the
Fruition ; I fee no great Reafon why a
Fools Blifs fhould not, without a Figure,
be a Paradife in the Propriety of the Word,
fince it is a State wherein neither Defire out¬
‘trips Enjoyment, nor Fear of Deprivation
damps the Comfort of a prefent Poffeffion.
BUT after all, there is a wide Difference
betwixt what is firidly True, and whats
finely Plaufible ; aud therefore bow ſmoothly
foever it may found, that rhe being pofefsd
of all we do bur ſuppoſe Good, is the coms
mencing all we can imagine Happy, (which
by the by were it unconditionately granted,
would infer, that the degenerating into Brutes
was an Approach to the becoming Gods,)
yes