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To the Reader. nels ; the caffe Refule of each Man's Experience, 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 Complacency 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 Happinefs during the Conceit equally reſults fron an Imaginary, 45 4 Real, Objet, and whats Aiery and Phbantaffick in the Apprehenfion, 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
